
"^^^W" 







COL. (iEO. W. UUNDER. 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



160th IND. VOL 

INFANTRY 



IN THE 



Spanish-American War, 



WITH 



Biographies of Officers and Enlisted Men 
and Rosters of the Companies. 



ILLUSTRATED. 



By GEO. B. BOWERS, 

DECATUR, IND. 



The ARCHER PRINTING CO., 
FORT WAYNE, IND. 



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DEDICATION. 

To my Comrades I humbly 
dedicate this poor oftering. 



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PREFACE. 

No apologies will be made for publishing this 
book, neither is it asked that the imperfections 
be overlooked. Lack of time has made it neces- 
sary to compile the work hurriedl3\ The first 
attempt is not always the crowning effort; with 
this consolation I boldly present this record to 
my comrades who made it 

The history is honestly written and in lang- 
uage plain. We can not boast of victorious 
battles, yet with pride the brief record is written. 

The biographies were written from data given 
me. No bombastic language has been used, no 
unknown virtues ressurrected, but all is a mere 
statement of data. 

In the rosters you will find a helpful record, 
yet it is not without mistakes. 

It is hoped that the 160th Ind. will find this 
little volume valuable as a record and that pleas- 
ant memories will he stimulated. 

The Publisher. 



The 160th Indiana Regiment 
Volunteer Infantry* 

The story of Cuba's struggle for liberty is so 
well known that it need not be written here. 
The world was awakened to sympathy; there 
was but one nation that dared to intervene. In 
the United States public opinion bears its weight 
in making the law, and, when the year 1898 be- 
gan, it was evident that Spain was unal)le to 
pacify her belligerent colonies, the American 
public demanded that Congress act. 

The Destruction of the Maine. 

In time of peace, it is a custom for navies to 
exchange friendly visits. It was on such a mis- 
sion that the U. S. S. Maine was sent to the harbor 
of Havana. The presence of this ship in the 
harbor of an outspoken enemy was looked upon 
as a challenge, plotting became rife. 

On the evening of February 15th, 1898, that 
ship was destroyed by some outside force ; with 
it two hundred and sixty-six sleeping sailors per- 
ished. The world received the news with hor- 
ror, public feeling rose to a frenzy, and the war 
clouds grew darker and more threatening. A 
commission was appointed to inquire into the 
cause of this shocking calamity; after twenty- 



12 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

three days of deliberation it gave in its verdict. 
It was evident that the dead sailors were the 
victims of a plot in which the Spanish officers 
were implicated. A cry went up over our fair 
land — a cry for vengeance. The public de- 
manded war. 

The Indiana National Guard and Its Preparation 
for War. 

When the year 1898 opened, it tound Indiana 
with a JS'ational Guard, consisting of forty-one 
companies of infantry and three batteries of 
artillery, with a total strength of 2822 officers 
and enlisted men. This was further increased 
by a company of infantry at Brownstown and 
on April 21, b}^ a company of infantry at Hun- 
tington. On about April 1st, the company 
commanders were ordered to recruit their com- 
panies to a maximum of eighty-four. In the 
month of April the two companies composed 
of colored men were mustered out. The streng-th 
of the National Guard was further decreased by 
mustering out the band of the First Infantry. 

Congfress and the President Act. 

On April 19th Congress passed the Kesolution 
of Intervention, demanding that Spain release 
its sovereignty over Cuba and evacuate at once. 
On the 22nd it was approved by the President 
and forwarded to Madrid only to be answered 
with a prompt refusal. 

Without a dissenting voice Congress ap- 
propriated $50,000,000 to be used at the discre- 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 13 

tion of the President to purchase munitions 
and war vessels. Agents were dispatched to 
every nation to buy war vessels, cruisers, or any- 
thing to equip a navy. It was but a short time 
until the American navy was one of the strongest 
afloat. 

War was now imminent. On April- 23rd the 
President issued a proclamation calling for 125,- 
000 volunteers to serve in Army of the United 
States for two years, unless sooner discharged. 

Indiana and the First Call. 

On April 25th, at 6:15 p. m., Governor Mount 
received a message from the Secretary of War 
informing him as to Indiana's quota. On the 
same day Governor Mount issued a proclamation 
directing that the entire Indiana National Guard 
be called out. Without a moments delay Briga- 
dier General Will J. Mclvee notifled the regi- 
mental commanders, and by 11:00 p. m. each 
company commander was ordered to report at 
once with his company to Brigadier General 
McKee at the Fair Grounds of the State Board 
of Agriculture. The flrst company to report 
was Captain Allen's of Frankfort, he reporting 
at 5:00 a. m., April 26. 

The camp was named Camp Mount, in honor 
of Governor James A. Mount. The camp was 
composed of the First, Second, Third and Fourth 
Regiments of Infantry and Batteries A, E and 
D. Battery D of Dana, was returned. 

By filling vacancies in the remaining organi- 



14 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

zatioiis they formed a total equal to the state's 
quota. The following companies were accepted 
to fill vacancies in the different regiments: 
Co. I, 4th Inft., at Tipton, April 25, 1898. 





K, " 


it 


" Huntington, 


April 21, 




C, 2nd 


a 


" Frankfort, 


" 26, 




L, 1st 


ii 


" Vincennes, 


" 28, 




K, 2nd 


a 


" Martinsville, 


, " 28, 




M, 3rd 


a 


" Plymouth 


" 28, 




L, 4th 


a 


" Anderson 


" 28, 




M, 4tli 


(.i 


" Logansport 


" 26, 



The Departure from Home. 

In memory return to that morning when the 
citizen soldiers answered the call to arms offer- 
ing themselves to be remoulded and drilled into 
real soldiery, to endure the hardships that must 
come with their chosen destiny. Does not the 
memory of that morning linger with you as a 
dream? On that morning, amid the noise of 
drums and cheers, you heard the sobbing of a 
mother, wife or sweetheart. Perhaps your eyes 
moistened as you said "good-bye'" to your loved 
ones, or it may be you only smiled when there 
was bestowed on you a fond farewell. You did 
not think of the dangers of war and disease as 
your loved ones. The dangers you were to en- 
counter were not alone the enemies' bullets but 
a more dreaded enemy — disease, who may at- 
tack you in the most peaceful quarters. And 
those mothers, wives and sweethearts, some of 
them will sob again for he, foi- whom they 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 15 

sobbed, has said his last good-bye. Death has 
recruited his army. With all this, peahng bells, 
shrieking whistles, bands playing and cheers of 
thoughtless ones, each company departed from 
its home. Crowds gathered at the stations to 
see the departing soldiers, greeting them with 
cheers and patriotic music, and fair ones be- 
stowed bouquets of flowers. If the train stopped 
hundreds of hands were stretched forth to grasp, 
yes, even to touch the hand of a soldier, some 
making sentimental remarks, some common- 
place, others sobbed and said "God bless you." 

First Day in Camp. 

The flrst company of the Fourth Infantry to 
respond was Company B, of Decatur, com- 
manded by Captain E. P. Miller, now Major ot 
of the Third Battalion. W^e had been informed 
that we were to be cpiartered in the buildings 
of the Fair Grounds and were surprised when 
we left the cars and marched to the northeast 
corner of the camp and were told that was to be 
our camp. It was but a grassy plat with no 
tree or shelter near, and this was April with its 
showers and chilling winds. The buildings we 
had hoped to occupy were already tilled with 
other regiments. The other companies arrived 
later, the last going into camp about May 6th. 
All set to work preparing the camp; squads 
were detailed to carry and pitch the tents, bring 
blankets, rations and wood. All worked with a 
will, dolefully shouting or burlesquing our own 



16 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

awkwardness. It needed but a day or two to 
complete our camp, then we set to drilling. 
Each day we had four drills and a parade, re- 
quiring in all nearly eight hours. At this time 
we deemed it a hardship, but we since found it 
was the proper course. 

The State's Quota. The First Call. 

At the first call, Indiana furnished four regi- 
ments of infantry and two batteries of artillery. 
The four regiments of infantry and Batteries A 
and E of the Indiana National Guard were used. 
Early in Ma}" the medical experts began the 
examination of the men enrolled. Hundreds 
were rejected, as only those of the most perfect 
health and physique were accepted. Many, after 
being examined or before examination, returned 
to their homes. Why they returned to their 
homes is best known to them ; it was their privi- 
lege, and no one should censure them for their 
action. Many, once rejected, pleaded to be ac- 
cepted. Such are to be admired. Those who 
were accepted were eager to enter the Federal 
service at once. Lieut. W. T. May, afterward 
Lieutenant-Colonel, and at present Captain, in 
U. S. A., was mustering officer and mustered 
the regiments in as fast as they were examined. 
The Fourth Infantry was mustered in on May 
12, 1898. 

In numbering the regiments, after being mus- 
tered into the Federal service, it was determined 
to begin the numbers where the War of the 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 17 

Rebellion left ofF. The First Regiment of In- 
fantry being first ready to be mustered was 
designated as the 157th, the Second Regiment 
was next and was made the 158th, the Fourth 
was last and was made the 160th. 

The ceremony of mustering was but this : 
The mustering officer inspected each man to 
make sure there were no substitutes; the fol- 
lowing oath was then administered : "■ I do 
solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and 
allegiance to the United States of America; that 
I will serve them honestly and faithfully against 
all her enemies whomsoever; and that I will 
obey the orders of the President of the United 
States, and the orders of all the oflicers appointed 
over me, according to the rules and articles 
of war." 

After taking this oath each one felt the new 
responsibility, for it made him a soldier of the 
United States. The 160th continued drilling, 
but without arms, as its equipments were used 
to equip the 157th. 

The following is the strength ot the regiments 
furnished under the first call. 
157th. Oflicers, 50; enlisted men, 973. 
158th. " 50; " " 977. 

159th. " 50; " " 977. 

160th. " 50; " " 973. 

LIGHT BATTERIES. 

27th. Oflicers, 4; enlisted men, 121. 
28th. " 4; " " 121. 



Total 


,1023 


u 


1027 


ii 


1027 


a 


1023 


Tota 


1, 125 


a 


125 



18 History of the 160th. I A". I. 

staking a grand total under the first call of: 
Officers, 208; enlisted men, 4142. Grand total, 
4,350. 

The 160th Leaves Camp Mount. 

There were many conflicting rumors as to our 
destination on leaving Camp Mount. The two 
batteries and the lo7th had already gone to 
Chickamauga Tark, Ga. On May 16th the 
160th Regiment was paid for its services to the 
State, and in the afternoon of the same day 
started toward the South. It departed from the 
capitol amid a storm of applause. There was 
little sleeping on the train that night ; all night 
long, at every station, a crowd greeted us with 
cheers and bands of music. 

All were enthusiastic and persistent in bestow- 
ing admiration or asking for a button. Alany a 
fair one gave a bouquet of flowers with her name 
and address, hoping to receive a letter from a 
soldier. 

Leaving Indianapolis via the "Big Four,"' at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, we were transferred to the 
Queen and Crescent Route," reaching Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., the evening of the 17th. 

Here our train was side-tracked and the night 
passed in the cars. The foUowing morning our 
train was taken to Lytle, Ga. Lytle was then a 
station consisting of a post-office, general store, 
two or three dihipidated residences and a gov- 
ernment warehouse. 

Aside from this there was an immense quan- 
tity of army supplies and equipments. All were 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 19 

quite tired from the long journey of live hundred 
and fifty miles. On leaving the cars we rested 
in a grove on a hill near b}^ that we might bet- 
ter bear the fatigue of the long march to camp, 
which was in the east part of Chickamauga 
Park, four miles from L^'tle. 

Camp George H. Thomas. 

Chickamauga Park is a tract ot land set aside 
by the Federal Government on account of its 
historical associations. During the civil war it 
was the scene of the Chattanooga campaign, 
which resulted in a series of battles, the princi- 
pal being that of Chickamauga. It was in that 
battle that Gen. Geo. H. Thomas won the name 
of "Rock of Chickamauga," and for his fame the 
camp was named in his honor. AVe found the 
ground 3'et strewn with bullets and pieces of 
shell, which were eagerly picked up, many being 
kept or sent away as souvenirs and relics. 

Camp Life in Camp Thomas. 

Once settled in camp we set to drilling. The 
weather was so warm as to make drilling almost 
arduous. The 160th was assigned to the First 
Brigade, Second Division, of the First Army 
Corps, the First Brigade being composed of the 
Thirty-first Michigan, 160th Indiana and the 
First Georgia, commanded by Brig.-Gen. Roe, 
the Division Commander being Major Gen. 
Poland, and the Corps Commander Maj. Gen. 
John R. Brooke. 



20 History of the 160th I. V, I. 

It seemed a hardship to sleep with only a 
blanket spread upon the ground. We spread 
cedar boughs on the tent lloor, the boughs serv- 
ing a double purpose, that of a mattress and a 
preventative of "gray backs." 

At times water was scarce, for it was hauled 
or carried from distant springs. On account of 
the great number needing supplies, it was im- 
possible to get adequate supplies, therefore at 
times there was a shortage of rations. At several 
times we had nothing but hard-tack and bacon. 
The Medical Department ordered a general 
vaccination on May 29th. The order Avas car- 
ried out by the regimental surgeons, vaccinating 
every man in the command. On June 7th arms 
and equipments were issued to the regiment. 
Lieutenant Glascock, of Co. C, acted as ordi- 
nance ofticer, issuing to each enlisted man a 
Springfield rifle, cartridge belt, canteen, haver- 
sack, knapsack and shelter tent. 

Previous to receiving the rifles, sentinels stood 
guard around the camp with clubs. N'ow fully 
equipped we took long marches to prepare us 
for the arduous marches we expected to make in 
Cuba or Porto Rico. 

IsTone will ever forget bathing in Chickamauga 
Creek, whose waters were muddy and unfit to 
use, yet we bathed in it until we were fortunate 
enough to have a bath house. 

The first death to occur in the regiment was 
that of Private Paul Bruce, of Co. H., his death 
occuring on the morning of June 14th. Funeral 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 21 

services were held by Chaplain Weaver, after 
whicli the remains were sent to Warsaw for in- 
terment. 

While bathing in Chickamauga Creek, Private 
Frank Rosebaugh of Co. K accidently struck 
his head against rock while diving. He was 
taken to the Division Hospital where he died 
July 24. Funeral services were held by Chap- 
lain Weaver, after which the remains were sent 
to Huntington, Indiana, for interment. 

The Second Call for Volunteers. 

On April 25th President McKinley issued a 
proclamation calling for 75,000 additional volun- 
teers to serve in the Army of the United Slates 
for a term of two years unless sooner discharged. 
An order was issued on June 18th to recruit the 
companies to a maximum of 106. After the 
companies already in the service were recruited 
to the maximum, it was required to equal Ind- 
iana's quota one regiment of infantry and two 
separate companies of infantry, composed of 
colored men. 

The following is a summary of the enlistments 
in Indiana under the second call: 

161st Ind. Vol. Inft., officers 46, enlisted men 
1228, total 1274. 

Seperate companies (colored), officers 6, en- 
listed men 196, total 202. 

Recruits, 157 Ind. Vol. Inft., enhsted men 
284, total 284. 

Recruits, 158th Ind. Vol. Inft., enlisted men 
313, total 313. 



22 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Recruits, 159th Tnd. A^ol. Inft., officers 1, en- 
listed men 341, total 342. 

Eecrnits, 160th Ind. Vol. Inft., enlisted men 
291, total 291. 

Eecruits, 27th Battery, enlisted men 52, 
total 52. 

Recruits, 28th Battery enlisted men 54. 
total 54. 

Making a total under the second call: officers 
53, enlisted men 2759; grand total 2812. 

There was organized in the State of Indiana 
one Company of Engineers with 91 enlisted men, 
and one Signal Corps with 48 enlisted men. 
These two organizations were not included in 
the quota of troops from the state. The total 
number of troops in the volunteer service from 
Indiana for the Spanish-American war was as 
follows: 

First call: Officers 208, enlisted men 4142; 
grand total 4350. 

Second call: Officers 53, enlisted men 2759; 
grand total 2812. 

Engineer Corps: Enlisted men 91, grand 
total 91. 

Signal Corps: Enlisted men 48; grand total 48. 

Grand aggregate; Officers 261, enlisted men 
7040; grand total 7301. 

The 160th Indiana Recruited. 

The following named officers were detailed to 
recruit the companies assigned: 

Lieut. Hughes, Co. H, to recruit the First Bat- 
talion; Lieut. Yail; Co. A, the Second Battalion; 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 23 

and Capt. Bender, Co. M, for the Tliird Bat- 
talion. Two hundred and ninety-one additional 
men were mustered in, increasing the strength 
of the regiment to 50 officers and 1264 enlisted 
men making a total of 1314. By June 23rd, the 
recruits began to arrive, greeted with derisive 
shouting and made to bear the brunt of many a 
joke, but soon their identity as recruits was lost 
they looking as soldiery as those of more ex- 
perience. 

Rumors in Camp. 

There are reports and rumors ilying continu- 
ally in camp. Some one starts a report, some 
one else takes it up, on and on it goes, constant- 
ly growing until it gains strength enough to be 
believed. Such a report came to camp 
July 1st. It was that Santiago had been 
stormed and captured. The report came in at 
"taps," the men in their night clothes bounded 
out of their tents, formed a procession the 
band leading and playing: "There'll be a hot 
time in the old town — .'' Many carried candles 
making the scene more picturesque as the shirt- 
tail brigade marched through the shadows, out 
into the moonlight. Reaching the Colonel's 
quarters the column halted and listened to 
several speeches, then each one returned to his 
tent to sleep and awake to iind that he had 
celebrated on a false report. 

But on July 4th we celebrated Sampson's vic- 
tory. Forming a column, with the Colonel at 
its head, we marched through the camp shout- 



24 ' History of the 160th 1. V. I. 

ing and cheering. During the month of July 
the 160th had rifle practice on a range built in 
the woods north of the camp. In July the 
ladies of Marion, Ind., presented the regiment 
with a beautiful silk flag, which was accepted 
by Col. Gunder in behalf of the regiment. At 
the same time the cities, wherein the companies 
were formed, presented the regiment a large 
tent, which we found quite convenient as a 
chapel and reading room. It may be a pleasure of 
the friends of the 160th Regiment to know that 
it was one of the few regiments in Avhich the 
sale of intoxicating liquors was prohibited. For 
this credit is due Col. Gunder, as he desired to 
shield his command from the evils of intoxicants 
and so preserving the health and character of 
his men. 

While in Camp Thomas each man bad an 
opportunity to visit Lookout Mountain and 
Chattanooga. Camp life grew monotonous, for 
all were anxious to get to the front. At noon 
of July 27th the 160th Ind. was ordered to re- 
port at Xewport Xews, Va., to join the expedi- 
tion invading Porto Rico. The Fifth III. Vol. 
Inft. had been returned and the 160th was as- 
signed to their place in the Third Brigade, with 
the First and Third Kentucky Regiments, com- 
manded by Brig. Gen. F. J). Grant, of the Third 
Division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Bates, of 
the First Army Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. 
Brooke. We packed our baggage intending to 
march at once, but Avaited until the following 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 25 

morning at 2:00 a. m. j^o bugle would have 
been needed that morning for all were ready to 
march at the appointed hour. At 4:00 o'clock 
the long column began to move slowly to Ross- 
ville, Ga., arriv^ing there at 7:00 a. m. We lay 
there in the hot sun until 5:30 p. m., when we 
started toward I^ewport News. We accom- 
plished the long journey of 950 miles with little 
fatigue for we traveled in sleeping cars. We 
traveled over the Southern Route, which passes 
through a country of beautiful scenery. We ar- 
rived at Newport News on the morning of July 
30th, and went into camp on the banks of the 
St. James River. In this camp were the follow- 
ing volunteers; First and ord Kentucky, one 
battalion of the Sixteenth Penn., one troop of 
Penn., cavalry A Penn., battery and the 160th 
Ind. This camp was named Camp Grant in 
honor of Gen. U. S. Grant, father of Brig. 
Gen. Grant. 

Camp Grant. 

Expecting to board a transport in a few days, 
we put up but a temporary camp, using our 
shelter tents. The camp was located on the 
sand; during the day the heat, augmented by 
the sand, was almost unbearable. 

During two weeks of our stay in this camp we 
had nothing to eat but hard-tack and bacon or 
canned beef. No remarks are needed concern- 
ing the condition of the beef and bacon, as the 
Eagan-Miles scandall will explain. Here Col. 
Lewis inspected the meats and condemned ten 



26 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

thousand pounds which were intended for the 
army in Porto Rico. The location of the camp 
was such as to make ordinary sanitation impos- 
sible. No doubt the lack of sanitation and 
proper food caused the many cases of fever that 
developed there or soon after leaving. On the 
morning of August 14th rain commenced, con- 
tinuing until the evening of the 15th, flooding 
the tents and leaving the men to And shelter as 
they might. The camp was almost deserted, 
the men going in every direction to And a dry 
place. Some slept in box cars, others in old 
buildings or wherever they could find a dry spot. 
The Protocol having been signed the 160th was 
ordered to remain in Camp Grant, but on Aug. 
18th the regiment was ordered to Lexington, 
Ky. On August 18th occurred the shooting of 
Private Andrews, of Co. I, by a negro in New- 
port News, death resulting instantly. At the 
same time the negro shot the comrade of Pri- 
vate Andrews, wounding him in the foot. The 
entire regiment was infuriated, some suggested 
that the negro suffer death for his crime, and 
even attempted to carry out the suggestion by 
force of arms. Happily better judgment pre- 
vailed, justice was assured, and so quiet restored. 
At 9 p. M., August 21, the regiment started to 
Lexington, Ky., by way of the C. & 0. Route, the 
distance from Newport News to Lexington, Ky., 
being 750 miles. The train arrived in Lexing- 
ton at 4:00 p. m., August 23. It is three miles 
from the city to the Wiel Farm where Camp 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 27 

Miles was established. The day was warm, 
many fell out and some of the companies on 
reaching camp had less than a dozen men in line. 

Camp Miles. 

Here dissatisfaction grows. Some desired to 
be mustered out, they had been disappointed in 
not being permitted to participate in the actual 
hostilities. Peace being evident, they felt that 
their duty as volunteers was done. Many had 
left families and position to enlist who now 
longed to return to their homes and vocations. 
It required tact to counteract this discontent, 
furloughs were issued, and all that desired had 
an opportunity to visit home and friends, return- 
ing better satisiied. At this time Congressman 
Geo. W. Steele visited the regiment, assuring 
the men that they would be mustered out in a 
few weeks. In Camp Miles the orders of the 
Medical Department were fully carried out, sani- 
tation was almost perfect, unserviceable tents 
were inspected and condemned, slop holes and 
sinks dug, tent floors put in and regularly 
scrubbed and disinfectants abundantly used. 
On September 15th orders were received to move 
to Camp Hamilton. The following day the 
regiment marched to the new camp, which was 
eight miles from Camp Miles. 
Camp Hamilton. 

Camp Hamilton was named in honor of Col. 
Hamilton, who fell at Santiago. The following 
volunteer regiments, including the 160th Indi- 



28 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

ana, formed Camp Hamilton : First Territorial, 
Twenty-first Kansas, Third Mississippi, Second 
Missouri, Twelfth Xew York, Third Kentucky, 
Third Engineers, Twelfth Minnesota, Fifth 
Pennsylvania and Second Kentucky. Several of 
these regiments were sent home from this place 
to be mustered out. The strict sanitation of 
Camp Miles was repeated here, but, however, 
jaundice broke out as an epidemic. On Septem- 
ber 19th there was a division Review for Major- 
General Breckenridge, and on the 20th one for 
Gov. Bradley of Kentucky. From Sept. 23 to 
28 there was a competition drill, on each day a 
regiment drilling. The 160th Indiana drilled on 
the 28th. The prize was won by the Twelfth 
New York. At about this time there was 
another competition drill. Company C repre- 
sented the 160th, and a company each of the 
Third Kentucky and Twelfth New York. The 
Twelfth New York formed a select companj^ 
principally of non-commissioned officers, thus 
giving the best drill, but they were not awarded 
the prize because they violated the agreement. 
The prize was awarded to the other competing 
companies to be divided equal)}'. 

The 160th is Called to Arms. 

On October t»th occurred a very grievous 
event, — the killing of a private of the Twelfth 
New York by Private Kitchen, of the Third 
Kentucky, on duty as a provost guard. Private 
Kitchen was immediately arrested and placed in 



IN THE Spanish- American AVar. 29 

jail to await investigation. It was proven that 
the killing was done in the line of duty, but, 
however, some of the Twelfth IsTew York began 
to plot to avenge Avhat they thought a wrong. 
On the night of the 10th they attempted to carry 
out their plan to mob Kitchen, but Gen. Wiley 
heard of the intention, and at 7:00 p. m. "To 
Arms" was sounded, the entire 160th Indiana 
and a battalion of the Third Kentucky being 
ordered out. 

Ten rounds of ammunition having been issued 
to each man, the battalions reported to General 
Wiley for further orders. After waiting an hour 
and a half they were ordered to return to camp. 
At 9:00 P.M. ''To Arms" sounded again, the bat- 
talions reporting at 7:00 quickly responded and 
were soon on their way to the city. It was a 
weary march of five miles. On arriving at Lex- 
ington, the companies were divided into squads 
with orders to patrol the streets and arrest every 
soldier regardless of his rank or pass. Each and 
every arrested man was made to march to camp 
and it was long after midnight when the long 
column with its four hundred prisoners ended in 
the field near camp, in which the arrested men, 
except commissioned officers, were compelled to 
await the morning, guarded by the Third Ken- 
tucky, but when morning came the guard was 
withdrawn and all were free again. The Twelfth 
I*^ew York felt very unkind towards the 160th 
for the part it took in this affair. The 160th 
has no pardon to ask, it realizes that obedience 



30 History of the 160th I. Y. I, 

is the lirst lesson of the soldier, they only did 
what they were commanded to do. 

On October 12th overcoats were issued. This 
was an important event, for the weather was so 
cold that it was almost impossible to retain a 
guard at night. On October 20th the regiments 
of Camp Hamilton were reviewed by the Secre- 
tary of War. Secretary Alger being highly 
pleased and complimenting the 160th Indiana 
for its line appearance, 

Halloween in Camp. 

Halloween came and we were yet in Camp 
Hamilton. On that night the boys were full of 
pranks and one was committed that did not 
seem to be much of a joke to Pabst and Schlitz, 
but it has since proven to be a cheap advertise- 
ment. Three car loads of beer intended for the 
Twelfth Xew York canteen were on the sidinsr 
in the rear of the camps of the Third Kentucky 
and 160th Indiana. The beer so near proved 
too great a temptation and the boys decided 
they must sample a little of it, and it being Hal- 
loween, it would be no crime to use the beer. 
During the night the 160th Indiana and Third 
Kentucky unloaded two hundred and fifty cases 
of bottled beer and one and a half cars of kea: 
beer. With so much beer on hand it was difii- 
cult to find enough hiding places. Holes were 
dug beneath the tent floors, kegs were weighted 
and put in the bottom of the creek, bottles 
strung on wires and suspended in the water, 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 31 

indeed there \vas beer anywhere and everywhere. 
Pabst and SchHtz were infuriated, bringing ac- 
tion to recover damages at once. An investiga- 
tion was ordered and it was decided that the 
Twelfth New Tork was liable. In the mean- 
time the papers far and wide contained accounts 
of the joke, as it proved to be. Thousands of 
buttons have been printed and distributed as 
souvenirs, thus proving a cheap advertisement, 
so satisfactory that the beer manufacturers have 
conie to regard the matter as a joke and have 
withdrawn their claim for damages. 

While at Lexington, the provost guards had 
little trouble to maintain order. The two prin- 
cipal events of the 160th were the killing of a 
negro soldier by a private of Co. G., and the 
other by Private Chilcot shooting a private of 
the Second Mississippi, which resulted in the 
loss of a leg. Both casualties occurred in the 
line of duty. 

The weather being so cold, it was ordered that 
the regiment be moved to a warmer climate and 
Columbus, Ga., was selected as a suitable site. 
On is'ovember 9th we broke camp at 3:00 p. m., 
loaded at 6:00 p. m., at 9:00 p. m. pulled into the 
city, and at midnight left Lexington. The 
weather Avas rainy during the entire journey of 
600 miles. We arrived in Columbus at 11:30 
A. M. and went into camp about two miles from 
the city, on tLe bank of the Chattahoochee River 
near the historic "Lover's Leap." 



32 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Camp Conrad. 

The camp was named Camp Davis in honor 
of Col. Davis who won fame at Santiago, but 
Col. Davis being a living man the camp's name 
was changed to Camp Conrad in honor of Major 
Conrad who displayed such remarkable bravery 
before Santiago, but unfortunately was not per- 
mitted to return to his native land to enjoy the 
distinction of bravery, death overtaking him as 
he was coming home. The 160th was trans- 
ferred to the First Brigade, commanded by 
Brigadier Gen. Wiley, First Division under 
Major Gen. Ludlow, First Army Corps under 
Major Gen. Wilson. The First West Virginia 
and the Third Kentucky were brigaded with us 
and camped here. We spent Thanksgiving 
here and were given a dinner by the ladies of 
Columbus. Aside from the splendid dinner 
there were sports of every kind, base ball, foot 
ball, jumping, vaulting, boxing and feats of 
strength. The foot ball contest was between 
the 160th and the Third Kentucky. The score 
being 12 to in ftivor of tlie Blue-grass state. 
On December 6th, the brigade was reviewed in 
heavy marching order by Major Gen. Wilson. 
The brigade in column of platoons, marched 
through the principal streets, the people greet- 
ing them with enthusiasm. And on the follow- 
ing day the brigade was reviewed by Brigadier 
Gen. Wiley, it now being assured that the 
160th was to be sent to Cuba. On December 
19th, the Springfield rifles were turned in and 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 35 

tlie IT. S. Magazine riHes were issued in their 
stead. The Springfield rille is a single shot, 
forty-five calibre, shoots a heavy lead ball, and 
requires black powder. During the late war 
this rifle was found to be of little use on account 
of the smoke in firing and the shortness in 
range. The U. S. Magazine rifle is of the 
calibre thirty, requires white powder and shoots 
a leaden bullet covered with a steel jacket. In 
firing there is no smoke and the report is re- 
duced to a minimum. This rifle has a maga- 
zine holding five cartridges, and by placing one 
in the chamber six loads are in a position to be 
fired in less than half a minute. 

Christmas day was not very merry to many 
of us, for it seemed a dismal day, devoid of any- 
thing to remind us of Christmas day. The 
camp was destitute of visitors as the people in 
the city were busy in their own festivities. Co. 
L decorated its streets for this day with a fine 
arch of mistletoe, evergreen and holly. The 
Company streets was lined with evergreen and 
palms, giving them appearance of a park, and 
attracting the attention of the occasional visitor. 

On the 26th rifle practice with the Magazine 
rifle commenced and continued for ten days. 
The shooting was excellent, many scores of 
twenty-five out of a possible twenty -five being 
made. 

The sanitation at Camp Conrad was almost 
perfect, the greatest care exercised to prevent 
disease. Sinks and slopholes were dug, w^ood- 



36 History of the ] 60th I. V. I. 

work whitewashed, and disinfectants success- 
fully and abundantly used. Such care was ex- 
ercised, as for example : On December 29th all 
the tents were torn down and aired, iloors dis- 
infected and scrubbed and the ground sprinkled 
with lime. 

Orders to be ready to move to Cuba were 
issued on December 29th, and the regiment 
assigned to the District of Matanzas, commanded 
by Brig. Gen. Sanger of the Department of 
Matanzas, commanded by Major Gen. Wilson of 
the Division of Cuba, commanded by Major 
Gen. Brooke. The month of December was 
very cold. We did our best to keep warm and 
comfortable by warming our tents with small 
sheet-iron stoves or oil stoves, or a bucket full of 
live coals. 

Each Company of the second and third bat- 
talions decorated its streets for ISTew Years day. 
Evergreen, mistletoe, moss, holly and palms 
being abundant, they were used to make arches, 
letters and other decorations. The streets were 
lined with evergreen trees, thus giving the camp 
a unique appearance, beautiful to the eye of the 
Northern soldier. Isew Years day was no more 
eventful than Christmas, with the exception that 
the camp was filled with visitors and curious 
sight-seers. 

Columbus being a typical southern city, and 
that so many a pleasant associations were 
formed there, it has such an important part in 
the regimental history as to require a sketch: 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 37 

Columbus, Georgia, is a city of 25,000 popula- 
tion, situated on the east bank of the Chata- 
hoochee river, which at this point divides 
Georgia and Alabama. The city was founded 
in 1830 and has steadily grown to its present 
proportions. Owing to the splendid water 
power afforded by the Falls north of the city, it 
has become an important manufacturing point 
and its future in this line is particularly bright 
as the power is being farther developed and 
within twelve months there will be probably not 
less than thirty thousand horsepower under con- 
trol and utilized to drive the wheels of industry 
as well as light the city and propel cars over the 
twenty miles of suburban tracks. 

Too much cannot be said in appreciation of 
the relinement, culture and hospitality of the 
people of Columbus. It is a city founded on the 
Ante Belluni traditions, and courtesy to stran- 
gers and chivalry to ladies are characteristics 
which are strongly marked and readily rec- 
ognized. 

Major Miller Voted a Sabre. 

At a fair given by the Hebrew Ladies' Aid 
Society of Columbus, Ga., on December 22, 1898, 
Major Miller was voted the most popular officer 
of the brigade encamped in Camp Conrad, and 
awarded a very handsome sabre. The opposing 
candidates were Adjutant Mitchell, Lieutenant 
Casey, Captain Gaines all of the Third Ken- 
tucky, and several others. The Major received 



38 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

a large majority of tlie votes a fact of which the 
KJOth is proud, thus proving the Indiana officers 
second to none. 

To Cuba at Last. 

On January 6th the First Battahon broke 
camp, hoarded a train of the Southern Ivoute 
and Avent to Charleston, S. C, where they 
boarded the Steamship Saratoga of the Plant 
Line, which w^as a vessel of sufficient capacity 
to nicely carry a battalion and its equipments. 
This same ship transported the Second and Third 
Battalions, which followed, about eight days 
intervening between each battalion's moving. 

The First Battalion entered the harbor of Ma- 
tanzas on June 12th, and went into camp on the 
14th, near the San Juan River, west of the city. 
The city was full of Spanish soldiers, who soon 
after embarked for Spain, and was already occu- 
pied by the Third \J. S. V. Engineers, Eighth 
Massachusetts and the Twelfth Xew York Vol- 
unteer Infantry. The Indiana men were kindly 
received by Spaniard and Cuban, their former 
foemen treated them with kindness and consid- 
eration, proving that many of the conquered had 
hearts as tender, true and brave as many of the 
blue. 

That Cuban Cemetery. 

After six days, the battalion changed its camp 
site on account of the offensive cemetery near 
by. In the United States a cemetery does not 
usually present an offensive view, but the Cuban 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 



39 



cemetery necessitated a move. Perhaps it may 
be of interest to know how the Cubans disposed 
of their dead. The wealthy class lease vaults or 
space for e^raves in the beautifully decorated part 
of the cemetery, and have imposing- funerals 
similar to the custom of our native land. When 
a poor person dies, he is placed in a rough cotEn 




or box and born awa}' on the shoulders of his 
friends to the graveyard, where the coffin is 
placed in the long trench and covered with a 
little earth. Usually there were three layers of 
coffins in each trench. When the flesh was 
decomposed the bones and coffin were dug out 
and thrown on the bone pile, so as to make 
room for others in the trenches. If the rents 
for the vaults and space were not prom})tly paid 



40 History of the 160th L V. I. 

the remains were thrown on the common bone 
pile. It made no difference of what rank or 
position the dead was, the rent had to be paid 
or the bones would be thrown out. Brio-adier- 
General Sanger immediately ordered the bones 
buried, which was done promptly, and so the 
bone pile vanished before the American in- 
Huence. 

The Second Battalion entered the harbor of 
Matanzas on January 19th, unloaded the next 
day, the Third Battalion arriving on the 27th 
and unloading on the following day. There 
were no docks in the harbor at that time, the 
unloading was accomplished with the aid of 
lighters. 

The Camp. 

The District of Matanzas was occupied by the 
Eighth Massachusetts, Twelfth New York, Third 
Kentucky and the 160th Indiana, with Brig.- 
Gen. Sanger in command of the District. After 
the withdrawal of the Volunteers the Tenth U. 
S. Infantry and Second U. S. Cavalry were sta- 
tioned here. 

The camp was located on the shore of the Bay 
of Matanzas, to the east of the city, and on an 
old coral reef. Its surface was almost entirelj^ 
bare of earth, but the cactus and briar found 
rooting in the crevices. Between the cactus 
and briar were little short projections of rock. 
The sharp rock projections, holes, crevices, cac- 
tus, underbrush and briar made it a very inter- 
esting camp. The thick underbrush had been 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 41 

cut by Cuban laborers, leaving the ground cov- 
ered with stubbles. We temporarily anchored 
our tents to the rocks and stakes driven into the 
holes of the rocky surface. Large, roomy tents 
were issued and kitchen and mess sheds con- 
structed. The camp being so rough, every 
available man was set to work grubbing out the 
cactus and stubbles, breaking down the rocky 
projections and filling the holes and crevices. 
Roads and walks were built in each street. There 
was some newspaper comment as to this work, 
but the history does not record the death of any 
one whose death was caused by overwork on the 
camp streets of Cuba. In a few weeks the roads 
were finished, the surface quite level, and the 
camp took on the appearance of a well-ordered 
camp. All this work added to our comfort, and 
we felt repaid for our work. 

The holes and crevices in the rocks afiforded 
protection and habitation for the seeming count- 
less number of scorpions, tarantulas, centipedes, 
chameleons and sand-fleas. We had a horror 
for these reptiles and insects, for the cool nights 
caused them to seek a warm place, the favorite 
being the blanket or clothing of the soldier. It 
was quite common to shake a scorpion or centi- 
pede out of one's blanket or blouse in the morn- 
ing. The fear of being bitten or stung caused 
much discomfort. Few were so unfortunate as 
to meet with such an accident and none resulted 
seriously. After the camp was well cleared we 
found relief from the centipedes and scorpions, 



42 HiSTOEY OF THE 160th I. V. I, 

but the little harmless chameleon gave us many 
a scare. It hid in the cots, knapsacks and any- 
where. Its movement and noise was always 
charged to the scorpion and as much precaution 
observed. Perhaps that which added most to 
our discomfiture was the little black sand flea. 
AVhen they located in one's clothing, they could 
only be exterminated by a severe boiling. They 
were continually annoying with their bills, 
which resulted like the bite of a Jersey mos- 
quito. 

The City of Matanzas. 

Matanzas is a city of about 70,000, fifty miles 
east of Havana, with which it is connected by 
rail and water. The city is situated on the flats 
on both sides of the San Juan River, which 
brings down immense quantities of mud and 
greatly impedes inland navigation. As an offset 
the bay is spacious, easy of access and sheltered 
from the violent gulf storms which prevail at 
some seasons. A large amount of money has 
been spent in fortifying the city and equipping 
the seven forts. 

lu'obedience to the Weyler edict 11,000 recon- 
centradoes were herded together in this city, and 
within a year 9,000 of them died. In the public 
square, under the shadow of the Palace, twenty- 
three people died of starvation in one day. 

The first actual bombardment of Cuban forts 
took place on April 27th, at Matanzas when 
three ships of Admiral Sampson's fleet, the flag- 



IN, THE Spanish- Americ AX War. 43 

ship New York, the monitor Puritan, and the 
Cincinnati, a cruiser, opened lire upon the forti- 
fications. The bombardment had little effect 
and fell short of the stone forts near the city. 

There is no more charming spot in Cuba 
The bay is like a crescent in shape and receives 
the waters of the Yumiri and San Juan rivers. 
On the ridge of the town stands a cathedral 
dedicated to the black Alrgin. 

The city is built principally of masonry and 
in the most substantial manner, though little 
effort has been made to secure architectural 
beauty. The pride of tlie city is the new theatre 
which is pointed out as the handsomest building 
in Cuba. The houses are nearly all one story 
and have brick or stone floors. The window 
openings are grated and have a portiere or 
shutter on the inside, little, if any, window glass 
is used. The houses are built out even with the 
street. There are no front yards and no spaces 
between the buildings. Instead of back yards 
there are courts, some of them beautiful, the 
beauty in accord with the wealth of tlie occu- 
pants of the dwelling. The outside -walls are 
mostly covered with plaster and the roofs are of 
red tile. 

The streets of the city are narrow — not more 
than twenty or thirty feet wide. There are no 
street cars and but few electric lights. The 
streets are uneven being paved with cobble 
stone if paved at all. 

On our first visit to the city we approached it 



44 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

by the Praedo which passed along our camp. 
The Praedo is a long wide street, built and used 
by the Spanish as a parade ground. At the 
end of the street is a monument, a plain shaft. 
Inside the shaft is a beautiful statue of Alphonso 
XII. It was walled in by the irate Cubans who 
were prevented from tearing it down by Major 
Gen. Wilson. 

We found the streets covered with filth and 
giving off a stench almost unbearable. All 
kinds of filth were thrown into the streets. As 
soon as the Military government secured con- 
trol hundreds of men were set to work cleaning 
the streets and courts. In a few months the 
city assumed an appearance of cleanliness. 

Yumiri Valley. 

The Yumiri Valley is north of the city, it is 
about sixty miles long and fifteen miles the 
greatest width, tapering to two miles. Each 
one had an opportunity to visit this valley at 
least once during our campaign in Cuba. 

Our first view of the valley was from the top 
of the range which fences in the long plain. 
The scene was beautiful, more picturesque than 
the famous Lookout view, and grander than the 
Kanawha. There was the royal palm — well 
named, for it is stately, indeed — the orange with 
its golden fruit, the banana with its long green 
leaves hiding the large yellow bunches, the 
cocoanut palm, the lime and the lemon, all 
growing in profusion. Here and there hidden 



IN THE Spanish-American AVar. 47 

amid the tropic green was the pahii thatched 
hut and a few ordinar}^ dwellings. The gentle 
slope of the hillside was dotted Jerseys, sure- 
footed and climbing like the mountain goat to 
pick the grass that springs from between the 
rocks. Through the middle of the valley winds 
the Yumiri sluggishly and glistening in the sun 
like an immense boa. 

Moonlight Along: the Bay. 

Guard duty in Cuba was not arduous, the sur- 
roundings were such as to give it a sort of fasci- 
nation, especially at night when all was quiet 
but the never ceasing tide. The moon shone so 
bright, the wavy water reflecting a million 
moons. The moonlight of Chickamauga was 
weird for the stately pines cast long shadows 
through the white city. A moonlight scene in 
Cuba was enchanting for the moon shone so 
fair, yes, even fairer than it lights along the 
AVabash. 

Review and Inspection. 

On February 11th, there was an inspection of 
all the troops in the District of Alatanzas by 
Inspector-General Breckenridge. The regiments 
formed on the Praedo and after being inspected 
marched in column of companies before the re- 
viewing stand. 

Anniversary of Washington's Birthday in Camp. 

^STothing unusual happened in camp on this 
day except that road-building and rock-break- 
ing were suspended for the day; and Gen. 



48 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Gomez, the Cuban leader, escorted by Major- 
Gen. Wilson and staff visited the camp in the 
afternoon. All were curious to see the famous 
Cuban, expecting to see a fine looking soldier, 
but were disappointed when they saw the little 
old man, who looked like a dwarf beside the 
soldierly Americans, with features of a foelike 
appearance in harmony with the cunning 
accorded him. In the evening he was enter- 
tained as a guest of honor at a grand ball given 
hy Gen. Sanger and staff. 

Orders to Muster Out. 

It is needless to say that the interest in the 
new surroundings was soon lost, and our Cuban 
camp became as monotonous as anj'. Each 
looked forward eagerly to the day when he 
was to become a civilian again. On March 11th 
the seeming tardy order came that ordered us 
to Savannah, Ga., to be mustered out. 

In camp the band was a sort of a thermometer 
of enthusiasm. When the enthusiasm reached 
a certain height the band played. It seems that 
the bans had been placed on " Home, Sweet 
Home," for when the sound of its notes was 
heard every one took the hint, the Avildest joy 
prevailed, and all were happ}^ that soon they 
would return to home and friends. 

Waiting: for the Transport. 

After having been mustered out, we could no 
longer speculate and gossip on that subject, 
interest turned to going home, principally to the 




W. L. KIGEK, LIEUT. COL. 



IN THE Spanish-Americax AVar. 51 

ship that was to carry us away. The ever pres- 
ent rumors bore stories weird and wild, some 
finding home in the soldier mind to cause a mo- 
mentary pain or pleasure. Some one was on 
the watch continually, for the transport was 
supposed to be due at any hour. One day we 
heard it started from Havana, the next at Xew 
York and on another day that it was not our 
ship, but that it took another regiment. Every 
blue line of smoke near the harbor's mouth was 
watched with anxious eyes and hope that it was 
the ship to carry us away. 

The Transport Arrives. 
Once we had been warned to be ever ready to 
answer a call to arms. It was 10 p. m. of March 
26th when we wakened to find the camp ablaze 
with excitement. Looking out one saw men 
hurrying toward the ba}', tent-tops were dotted 
with men, and ''Home Sick Knoll," a hill 
near camp, covered with watchers. The shore 
of the bay was lined with soldiers, not alone of 
the 160th, but of other regiments also. All this 
excitement Avas caused by the lights at the 
mouth of the bay, which were those of some 
monster vessel. How slowly the ship moved ! 
Hearts beat in fear that again they be mistaken. 
The lisihts grew brighter, at last the ship is 
spoken, some voice answers : "The JJ. S. T. 
Thomas come to take away the 160th Indiana." 
Satisfaction was expressed with a cheer and 
enthusiasm arose to such a pitch that the band 
played " Home, Sweet Home." 



52 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

To many the night was sleepless, hut in the 
early morn all were ready to assist with the 
w^ork of loading. Every one was present for 
duty, and there was no trouble to get details to 
haul the baggage. So rapidly was the packing 
accomplished that at nine o'clock a lighter, 
loaded with men and baggage, was taken to the 
ship. Promptly at 6 p. m. the loading was fin- 
ished, the ship weighed anchor and slowly 
steamed out of the harbor. We gave three 
cheers for home, and Cuba faded in the distance, 
first a blue line, then nothingness, which it Avill 
ever remain to many of us. 

The Transport Thomas. 

Before the late war the U. S, T. Thomas was 
an English cattle transport named Minnewaska. 
It is one of the largest government transports, 
its length being 530 feet, width 60 feet, and 
depth 75 feet. On the upper or hurricane deck 
is the cabin where the ofiicers were comfortably 
quartered. The space not occupied by the cabin 
and staterooms was free to be used by the enlist- 
ed men as a place for exercise and observation. 

The second dock was used as an exercise room 
and "dining-room" where we ate our miserable 
hardtack and beans cooked together, drank cofi'ee 
made of poorly distilled seawater. 

The third and fourth decks were the sleeping 
quarters for the enlisted men who swing their 
hammocks from hooks attached securely to the 
strong posts. * 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 53 

There was an upper and lower berth, one 
seemed about as treacherous as the other, for it 
was common at bed-time to hear a resounding 
whack as if some boy's hammock had let go and 
precipitated him to the iron floor. 

The entire ship was lighted by eletricity; this 
adding much to comfort and affording a tine 
light by which to read. In the lower decks and 
hold was stored the baggage and supplies. 

The Voyage. 

The entire voyage was accomplished without 
mishap for the ship was so large the waves, that 
would have tossed an ordinary vessel, had the 
slightest effect on ours. One night we en- 
countered a storm. Then the great heart of the 
great monster ship seemed to throb the more 
and labor with a new energy as it plowed 
through the high billows. Many looked out 
upon the angry sea and pitied those that might 
be out in a ship of less strength than ours. 

A sea voyage grows monotonous. The same- 
ness is tiresome to the eye and brain. The least 
bark tossing on the waves is watched with in- 
terest, the faintest cloud of smoke rising in the 
distance is immediately a topic of conversation 
and it is watched until it fades in the distance 
or grows larger, comes near enough to be spoken 
and then again it is watched until it is a speck 
in the horizon. 

We never tired watching the playful porpoise 
and the interesting flying tish. One day we saw 



54 History of the 160th 1. Y. I. 

alight between a Hock of seagulls and a school 
of porpoise. Such squaking, screaming and 
splashing of water we never before had heard. 
We watched them until our eyes refused to 
further penetrate the distance. 

Home A§:ain. 

We wakened on the morning of the 29th and 
were told that soon land would be in sight. 'No 
doubt many times we saw a blue line before it 
was really so. At last some one sliouted "home." 
All eyes were turned toward the west and saw 
home, indeed. Enthusiasm ran so high tliat the 
band played "Home, Sweet Home." Surely we 
had cause to be joyous for as many returned as 
had gone away a few mouths before. Truly 
Providence liad well protected us. 

We Avere met and piloted into the harbor by 
the tug Dauntless. The Dauntless was the 
famous fillibusterer which made more successful 
expeditions to Cuba than all other fillibusterers 
combined. At noon we anchored alongside the 
pier at the quarantine station, thus completing 
our journe}' of 700 miles in 42 hours. 

We stayed aboard the ship until the next 
morning when lighters and the old Santie took 
us to the quarantine station where our baggage 
was subjected to fumigation. Again boarding 
lighters we were towed to Savannah near which 
we went into camp to await muster-out. The 
distance from the quarantine station to the camp 
was eighteen miles. 




J. J. KYLE, MAJOR AND SURGEOX. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 57 

The Camp and Camp-Life. 

This camp was formerly called " Camp On- 
ward," but if that was the name when we 
camped there it w^as never mentioned. Our 
camp site was formerly occupied by Col. Bryan's 
regiment which had left the kitchens and floors 
we used. 

There was little guard duty to perform. 
Graduall}' tlie guards were withdrawn and only 
occasionally was a man detailed for duty. Drills 
were a thing of the past as well as parades. We 
had nothing to do but await the eventful muster- 
out day. 

Savannah and Its People. 

Of all the cities we saw during our soldier life, 
Savannah is at the head of the list as nearest the 
ideaL Its people add to the charm it bears. 
Savannahians show their appreciation for valor- 
ous deeds by rearing finely sculptored monu- 
ments, their love for beautiful surroundings by 
their parks and streets, their power to expedite 
labor by transportation, and business spirit by 
the immense trade facilities. The foreign trade 
is immense. This is proven by the many miles 
of docks bordered by cotton sheds and resin 
fields. 

The water supply of Savannah is of an enorm- 
ous capacity as was shown by the copious sup- 
ply at camp and as to quality every soldier will 
say it rivaled any he had ever tasted. 

All the harmony of this city, its conveniences, 



58 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

the easy yet business like customs, are the result 
of the hospitality of the people, their culture and 
education. Savannah will ever have pleasant 
associations in the soldier mind. 

Physical Examination. 

On April 10th, the first company was exam- 
ined by the surgeons, and the examinations con- 
tinued from day to day until finished. Before 
the final examination was a preliminary exam- 
ination in which the soldier could allege any 
disability. At the final examination the result 
of the former was noted and the disability certi- 
fied. In many cases men thought themselves 
perfectly sound but upon strict examination a 
defect was found and noted. 

Tossing in a Blanket. 

''Tossing in a blanket," is accomplished with 
a large army blanket stretched by as many 
hands as can grasp the edges. The victim to be 
tossed is thrown upon the slack blanket, the 
moment he touches the blanket it is pulled 
taut by all hands, and he goes heavenward. 
All shout ''good bye," but by that time he has 
returned to the blanket sprawling and kicking, 
but at that moment again started upward; and 
so it continues until the leader calls a halt. 

On the morning of our last Sunday in camp, 
some one suggested that the oflicers be tossed. 
To avoid any possible accident, a large fi}' tent 
was used instead of a blanket. The first victims 




JOHN J. BACKMAN, MAJOR. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 



61 



were the officers of Co. I, afterward came Col. 
Guilder, Lieut. Col. Kiger, Major Kj'le and go- 
ing down the line until every officer in the regi- 
ment, except Chaplain Vigus and another who 
was ill, was tossed good and high, after the 




officers came the sergeants, corporals, the band, 
many privates, and lastly Bud Dale's monkey 
which perhaps caused the most merriment. 

In no case was insult intended nor was any- 
one injured, it was a prank and taken good 
naturedly by all. 



62 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

April 25th, 1899. 

One yea;' the 160th Ind. Jived as an organiza- 
tion, and served its purpose as much as given 
an opportunity. How ditterent this day seemed 
than the 25th of April, 1898. One year ago 
many hearts' burned with ambition from 
thoughts of the coming conflict. On this day 
the ardor was truly dampened, for many am- 
bitious hearts were disappointed, for (should we 
blush?) we had hoped to return to our homes 
with honor won in battle. Wlio knows wdiether 
the men of Indiana were brave or not? Would 
they have done their State honor? I wish I 
dared to write the reason why Indiana received 
tardy recognition at the front. Tliere are three 
states or territories which were not represented 
by a regiment or a battery in an engagement 
either in Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines, 
and Indiana one of tlie greatest States in the 
Union is one of the three. 

This was the day of parting, the day when 
jealousies were cast aside, when mistakes were 
forgiven, for there is naught that brings out the 
true feeling as a goodb^'e. We had formed 
many pleasant associations during the year, yet 
all were eager to disband. 

Before the day was over nearly all were on 
their way homeward. The homeward journey 
was quiet and without event. The Savannah 
papers reported the 160th Ind. the most orderly 
regiment mustered out, there was 5o Mttle 
disorder. 



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This is the last of the 160th Incl. Its mem- 
bers were returned to civil life better or worse 
men. Let us hope better. The regiment lives 
in the past but not so with the members. You 
will hear from many of them as prominent or 
perhaps only as humble and honest citizens. 

The End. 

And now in parting — to you that have re- 
turned home marked with chevron or shoulder- 
strap— you are to be congratulated; to those 
who returned to their friends without even a 
chevron, and the student soldiers who laid aside 
their studies because of their ambition and yet 
return without rank other than private, to such 
I give special mention and remind them that oft 
times the public think Majors and Captains 
privates, and privates, Majors or Captains. 
"Then let us pray that come it may, 

As come it will for a' that, 
That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, 
May bear the g-ree and a' that."' 



ROSTER. 



Roster of the Regiment* 



Company A. 

Co. A was organized l)_y Capt. F. D. Ballon at 
Marion, December lltli, 1895, and lunstered 
into the National Gnard as Co. A, 4th Inft., I. 




W. I). M'EAVER, CH.A PLAIN. 

N. G. In Jnne of 1898, it was recruited to. a 
maximum by Lieut. Yail. 

The following is a list of the names of those 
discharged before mustering out, also the 
transferred : 



66 History of the 160th I. Y, I. 

Sergeant— Pearl Bogue, discharged Nov. 13, 1898 

Corporals — 

Lytton E. Dummick, discharged Oct. 24, 1898 
Ray R. Bigley, died of Typhoid, Nov. 9, 1898 
Jesse Sammons, discharged Jan. 30, 1899 
Geo. Clothier, discharged Jan. 30, 1899 
Victor J. Webb, discharged Dec. 19, 1898 

Musician— John John, Jr., discharged March 11, 1899 

Privates — 

R. Spencer VanDevanter, discharged Sept. 20, 1898 

John W. Pittinger, discharged Nov. 5, 1898 

Leroy Gould, transferred to U. S. Hospital Corps 

Samuel Perry, transferred to U. S. Hospital Corps 

Prank Hobbs, (R) transferred to band 

Henry J. Nie, transferred to U. S. Hospital Corps 

Holl's Hayworth, discharged Jan, 30, 1899 

Pearl Yergin, (R) discharged Jan. 30, 1899 

Geo. W. Stout, discharged Feb. 10, 1899 

Roy Tuder, discharged Feb. 18, 1899 

Asa S. Gossett, discharged Dec. 8, 1898 

John W. Crow, discharged Dec. 21, 1898 

Oliver H. Laer, discharged Dec. 22, 1898 

James Barrier, discharged Dec. 29, 1898 

Harold H. Steyle, transferred to U. S. Hos. Corps 

Verlin Marshall, discharged Jan. 12, 1899 

David Toppan, discharged Jan. 11, 1899 

Robt. Schuber, discharged Jan. 8, 1899 

L Morehead, dischai^ged Jan. 17, 1899 

Co. A Roster at Muster Out. 

Captain F. D. Ballou 2nd Lieut. F. M. Beshore 

1st Lieutenant B, L. Vail 1st Sergeant Jno. O. Fryer 



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67 



Sergeants— 
B. J. Hicks 
Tasso A. Myers 
Harry Stover 

Corporals— 

D. B. Lehmen 
Ross Watson 
Don D. Daily (R) 
O. P. Baldwin (R) 
Allen Parker 
LaMotte Henry 
Fred E. Hoffman 

Artificer— F. C. Martin 

Privates— 

Chas. Anderson (R) 
Samuel H. Abel 
N. A. J. Achor 
Chas. M. Bollar (R) 
Wm. A. Bishop 
L. E. Bennington 
James Burriers 
Otto G. Bogue 

A. L. Beek 
David H. Carl 
John M. Crow 
Louis O. Chasey 

B. W. Cox 
Clyde E. Carn (R) 
Oliver J. Darter (R) 
A. Leslie Dale 

J. T. Deshone 
Lawrence E. Eberly 
W. A. Emerson 



Oliver Baldwin 
Geo. W. Chambers 



Otto A. Fischer 
Edgar M. Baldwin 
Walter Moore ( R ) 
Jesse Holmes 
Lewis Gaiser ( R ) 
Geo. T. Harness 



Harry H. Reed (R) 
Chas. T. Payne (R) 
Calvin R. Smith (R) 
Rob't Schriber ( R ) 
Henry Shearer ( R ) 
John Leab ( R ) 
Edward Nicholson 
Harry W. Howard 
Theodore Hunter 
Geo. H. Kenyon 
William Kelsay 
Wilbur F. Mitchell 
Lew S. Owings 
Martin L. Penn 
O. H. McFeely 
Edward McClure 
Harry T. Turner 
Wm. H. Pittinger 
Arlie D. Parker 
Oscar Rybolt 



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E. H. Eberhart 
Clarence O. Fry 
Orval Gaiser ( R ) 
Conrad R. Hawkins 
Harry Hillsamer 
Jesse Holman (R ) 
U. G. Ham(R) 
Madison T. Kendal( R 
T. J. Opperman (R) 



R. T. Roberts 
John W. Sohn, Jr. 
LeRoy R. Smith 
Edward Smith 
John W. Stout 
Samuel Sewall 
Wm. Viepillet 
W. D. Wells 
Curtis Waller ( R ) 



Company B. 

Co. B first came into existence at Decatur, on 
June 7tli, 1889, as Co. B. of the Third Regiment 
Indiana Legion. It was mustered in b}- CoL 
McBride, and with Jonas Coverdale, M. D., as 
captain. In 1891, tlie company was called out 
to guard the jail against a mob. At that time 
M. L, Byers was captain, and 1894, served 
twelve days at Hammond during the riots, under 
Capt. John Myers. The organization was trans- 
ferred to the Ind. National Guard; and at the 
time of the declaration of the late war Major 
E. P. Miller was captain. Sergt. J. D. Andrews 
is the only charter member of the original 
organization in Co. B of the IGOtli. The com- 
])any was recruited on June 27th, by mustering 
in twenty-tive additional men. The only change 
in the officering of the Company was the resig- 
nation of First Lieut. Chas. Edington, the va- 
cancy was filled by appointing Second Lieut. 
Chas. Barnliart to fill vacancy and promoting 
First Sergt. R. I). Myers to Second Lieutenant. 



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69 



The following is a list of the discharged, deserted 
and transferred : 




ISIAH SUMAN, U. S. HOS. CORPS. 

First Lieut. C. E Edington, resig-ned Aug. 10, 1898 
Corporal E. B. Macy, discharged Dec. 15, 1898 
Private William Foreman, discharged Dec. 31, 1898 

Sergeants— 

John W. Watkins, discharged Jan. 14, 1899 
Jesse B. Roop, discharged .Tan. .30, 1899 



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Privates — 

Lloyd Mcintosh (R), discharged Jan 31, 1899 
Leonard McKinzie (R), discharged Jan. 31, 1899 
Louis Sampson, discharged Jan. 31, 1899 

Sergeant J. D. Andrews, discharged March 13, 1899 




r. s. peterson and quarters at matanzas, cuba. 

Corporals— 

Robert B. Lipes (R), discharged Feb. 23, 1899 
Fred Vaughn, discharged March 11, 1899 

Privates— 

Harvey E. Myers, discharged Feb. 25, 1899 
Ora V. Shaffer, transferred to band May 25, 1898 
Jacob Piercy, transferred to band May 25, 1898 
Isiah Suman, transferred to U. S. Hospital Corps 
Nov. 4, 1898 



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Frank Ruby, transferred to U. S. Hospital Corps 

Nov. 25, 1898 
John H. Good, transferred to U. S. Hospital Corps 

Dec. 18, 1898 
David Williams, deserted Sept. 20, 1898 
Daniel Railing, deserted Oct. 12, 1898 

Roster Co. B. 



Captain J. M. Lenhart 
2nd Lieut. R. D. Myers 
Sergeants— 

1st, W. H. Bushnell 

Com. Harry Reichart 

J. C. Ault 
Corporals— 

Chas. Brothers 

Jasper Lee 

Harry Bell 

Art Russell 

Craig Miller 

Lewis Rape 
Musicians— 

Kern, J. D. 
Artificer— Russel, J. M. 
Cook— Closs, Ed. 
Privates— 

Andrews, L. B. 

Burkhead, Cladd 

Baker, J. P. 

Barkley, Wm. 

Barthel, Roman 

Broadbeck, Harvey 

Barnett, Ed. 
Blossom, Dallas 



1st Lieut. C. E Barnhart 



Lewis Andrews 
Chas. Beery 
Harland Steele 

Chas. E. Ault 
James Hudson 
H. S. Ashbaucher 
Rollin Bobo 
A. O. Bollinger ( R ) 
Oliver Werst 

Gessinger, F. 
Wagoner, Weimer, S ( R ' 



Hakes, J. Z. (R) 
Hanna, J G. (R) 
Hahnert, Alfred (R) 
Johnston, T. J. (R) 
Kitson, Chas. 
Knoff, B. W. 
Lord, Chas. (R) 
Mumma, Chas. (R) 



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Bowers, Geo. B. 
Burrell, G. W. 
Burch, E. H. 
Buchanan, James (R) 
Barber, Edward (R) 
Brandeberry, (R) 
Conrad, George 
Cutting, Art 
Chilcoate, James 
DeVoss, Arlie 
Everetts, Geo. 
Fuller, Burton 
Fisher, Jonas 
Fisher, Amos ( R ) 
Frank, John L. (R) 
Fulton, Edward (R) 
Gordon, Lorenzo 
Gass, John 
Gault, Wm. 
Garwood, John (R) 
Hale, John 
Hess, Jacob 
Hurst, Wm. 
Hower, Chas. 



Noll, Wm. 
Peterson, R. S. 
Peterson, Frank 
Parish, French 
Peterson, Chas. 
Quinn, Harry 
Rich, .Joe 
Roop, C. A. 
Railing, S. M. 
Reed, F. G. 
Roop, Lorin (R) 
Smith, G. R. 
Sims, S. L. (R) 
Schiedigger, Sam (R) 
Smith, F. E. (R) 
Touey, Ed. 
Tucker, Wm. 
Tindall, Henry (R) 
Wolford, Roy 
Woodward, Chas. 
Whitcomb, Claud (R) 
Way, Chas. 
Wagoner, Wm. (R) 



Company C. 

Company C wnti organized at Lafa^xtte June 
25, 1895, by Capt. Geo. B. King and mustered 
into the State service as Company C, Fourth 
Infantry 1. i^. G. Captain King resigning, 
Second Lieutenant Thomas R. Marks was com- 
missioned Captain. At the annual inspection 



IX THE Spaxish-Americax War. 75 

in 1896, Co. C. was awarded first place and in 
1898, Capt. May, U. S. A., pronounced it the 
best company in the National Guards. Eighty- 
four officers and enlisted men was its strength at 
muster-in, but on June 27th the strength was 
increased by mustering in twenty-five additional 
men. 

The following named were discharged or 
transferred : 

Sergeant— Gilbert P. Newson, discharged Jan. 30, 1899. 
Corporals — 

Robert E. Powers, discharged Jan. 1, 1899. 

John T. Hogan, discharged Jan. 30, 1899. 

Musician— Amos Mitchell, discharged March, 1899. 
Privates — 

Ralph D. Lucas, discharged Nov. 20, 1898. 

Todd Shaffner, discharged Nov. 22, 1898. 

Wm. B. Grimes, discharged Dec. 31, 1898. 

Frank B. Moore, dischai^ged Feb. 25, 1899. 

Courtney Robeson, discharged Feb. 19, 1899. 

Reuben L. Kinsey, discharged March, 1899. 

Fred. S. Todd, discharged March, 1899. 

Fred. O. Vanderkleed, discharged March, 1899. 

Edgar V. Jackson, transferred to regiment band. 

Thos. W. McCauley, transferred to U. S. Hospital 
Corps. 

Chas. J, McGregor, transferred to U. S. Hospital 
Corps. 

Roster Company C. 

Captain Thomas A. Marks. 2d Lieut., C. A. Hubbard. 
1st Lieut., Jas. L.Glascock. IstSergt Jno. P. McCauley 



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History of the 160th I. V. I. 



Sergeants— 

Leander J. Penrod. 

John R. McGrath. 

Albert M. 
Corporals— 

Loyd M. Lucas. 

John C. Doyle. 

Louis D. Harvey. 

John R. McKee. 

C. K. Marks. 

Harry E 
Musicians— 

Thomas Degman. 
Wagoners— 

David Munn. 
Artificer — Wm. H. Mills. 

Privates— 

Adams, William R 
Ball, Seymour 
Barry, William M 
Byers, Frank C 
Bottenberg-, M H 
Dahm, Peter J 
Eversole, Jessie V 
Gephart, Geo 
Hedricks, Clarence C 
Houser, Martin 
Jenkinson, Arthur B 
Kelm, Herman C 
Kopf, Matthew P 
Kelsey, Richard A 
Layton, Alva 
Lehnen, Wm J 



Fred. S. Heneke. 
O. P. Throckmorton. 
Hopper. ■ 

Geo. A. Duffy. 
Frank C. Eckhart. 
Chas. A. Lawson. 
John Madden. 
Norman M. Fry. 
Bates. 

Oliver W. Harrey. 
Frank Olinger. 



Bowen, Thomas 
Barcus, Clarence E 
Ball, Edward S 
Cass, Earl R 
Chissom, James A 
Ellsworth, Lawson 
Ford, Robert V 
Gresham, Floyd A 
Hughes, William 
Harris, .Joshua N 
Kuntzweiler, Clyde 
Kennel, Frank 
Kummings, Wm 
Loeb, Abraham W 
Layton, Wm 
McBroom, Elam R 



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77 



McCulloch, Robt C 
Menges, Rufus 
Norris, Albert J 
Nichols, George 
Pflughaupt, Henry C 
Phillips, Wilbur A 
Rosenbeger, John W 
Rhoads, Howard W 
Siepelt, Chas F W 
Stretch, Simeon H 
Stanton, Wm B 
Sullivan, M A 
Stretch, Harry 
Taylor, Miles C 
Wade, John L 
Werkoff, Chas A 
Wade, Claude 

Younker, 



Mackessy, Wm 
Marshall, John L 
Nourse, Loring H 
Page, James T 
Penrod, S O 
Quaco, Samuel O 
Royce, Geo 
Southworth, Harry 
Smith, Harry C 
Smith, Louis H 
Stewart, Albert 
Storms, Chas H 
Shoup, Fred 
Vandamark, A L 
Walsh, Frank J 
Whitehead, H C 
Warner, Edward T 
F E 



Company D. 

The home of Company D is AV^abash. During 
its service there has been no change in the 
officering of the company except the discharge 
of Second Lieutenant A. Sayre, on account of 
disability, and Sergeant J. T. Mills was commis- 
sioned to fill the vacancy. In June of 1898 the 
Company was recruited to a maximum of one 
hundred and six men. The recruits are marked 
(R.) 

Discharged and Transfekred. 
Corporal— Ed. Vigus, discharged Jan. 30, 1899. 



78 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Privates— 

J. T. Reed, transferred from Co. H to Co. D, June 

25, 1898. 
O. H. Reed, transferred from Co. H to Co. D, June 

25, 1898. 
C. Wood, tranferred to Hos. Corps, Oct. 19, 1898. 
R. Carey, transferred to Band, Dec. 1, 1898. 
Hugh Smith, discharged July 26, 1898. 
Ernest Carrouthers, discharged Sept. 26, 1898. 
Bert Angle, discharged Oct. 1, 1898. 
Lot. Beeks, discharged Oct. 8, 1898. 
Lawrence Fell, discharged Dec. 8, 1898. 
John Blair (R), discharged Jan. 5, 1899. 
Bert. Anthony, discharged Jan. 5, 1899. 
James Fosnaugh (R), discharged Jan. 30, 1899. 
Roy Hoover (R), discharged Jan. 25, 1899. 
Fred. Walters, discharged Feb. 16, 1899. 
Rolland Gardner, discharged Feb. 2, 1899. 
Frank Owen, discharged Feb. 22, 1899. 
Jerry Flinn, discharged Feb. 28, 1899. 

Roster of Company D. 

Capt. J. R. Wimmer 2d Lieutenant, J. T. Mills. 

1st Lieutenant, A. G. Reed. 1st Sergt, A. C. Gardner. 

Sergeants— 

Com. Sgt., Pearson, A E Owen, A R 

Murphy, B F Malott, F 

Corporals— 

Little, R Stewart, H 

Henley, F Sommers, W 

Seymour, F Mills, J H 

LaSelle, C Rodgers, W W 

Stewart, G Williams, G (R) 



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79 



Musicians— 

Huddleston, W 

Artificer — Hale, A 
Wagoners— 

For St, L 
Privates — 

Anderson, W H (R 

Bent, F 

Brackenhouser, C 

Bennet, L 

Beach, E 

Ballinger, B 

Berry, C(R) 

Clevell, C 

Corey, J G 

Curnett, C (R) 

Gray, V 

Gardner, G 

Harris, B 

Ivory, J (R) 

Johnston, J 

Jones, F 

Jackson, L 

Lininger, C ( R) 

Martin, F C 

Mariner, H ( R ) 

Mariner, E (R) 

Oswalt, C F (R) 

Printy, E 

Rose, E 

Palmer, A 

Ripley, C 

Sumerland, J 



Sommers, A 



Miller, L 

Brady, G 
Brady, W 
Bradley, C 
Baldwin, J 
Bahler, F 
Cover, C (R) 
Day, E 
Edwards, D 
Edwards, E 
Follis, A (R) 
Hunter, H 
Hobson, F 
Bammes, F ( R) 
Kendall, W 
Knight, V 

Lassond, W 
Long, C 

Miller, R (R) 
McQuade, H ( R ) 

McCune, C (H) 

Mader, A (R) 

Porter, J O 

Ross, A (R) 

Reed, J T (R) 

Reed, OH 

Sutter, J 

Stewart, R 



80 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

Schily, F Straugh, H (R) 

Smith, C Shanahan, G 

Schnar, G Schriver, D (R) 

Stauffer, O L (R) Thomas, H 

Williams, B Tower, T 

Weber, W Spaulding, F (R) 
Wible, Forest. 



Company E. 

Company E was mustered in with the strength 
of seventy-six enlisted men and three officers. 
The organization was that of Company E, Fourth 
Infantry, Indiana N^ational Guards, and its home 
was at Bluff'ton, Ind. On June 22 it was re- 
cruited hy adding twenty-seven additional men. 
At the time of the muster-in Charles F. Brunn 
was Captain. Henry Johnson Second Lieutenant 
and Charles R. Pugh First Lieutenant. On Jan- 
uary 5th, 1899, Capt. Brunn resigned and Second 
Lieutenant Henry Johnson was commissioned to 
fill the vacanc}', but was discharged on Surgeon's 
certificate Jan. 31, 1899, and on January 28th, 
1899, First Lieutenant Charles Pugh resigned. 

The following is a list of the discharged, 
transferred and deserters: 

Corporal— Harry Travis, discharged Jan. 29, 1899. 
Privates— 

Wm. T. Angel (R), discharged Aug. 13, 1898. 

Paul Ehrsam, discharged Feb. 15, 1899. 

Wm. D. Hisper, discharged Feb. 28, 1899. 

Forest Krup, discharged Jan 30, 1899. 

Archie Madox, discharged Jan. 31, 1899. 



IX THE Spanish- American War. 

Wade C. Murphy, discharged Dec. 28, 1898. 
Wm. Rhine, discharged Sept. 30, 1898. 
Geo. Schnuss, discharged October 9, 1898. 
Clark W. Skinner, discharged Feb. 22, 1899. 



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CHAS. PUGH, LIEUT. 

Wm. E. Polmer, transferred to U. S. Signal Corps. 
Vernon Rhinehart, transferred to U. S. Hos. Corps. 
Wm. M. Forris, deserted December 12, 1898. 

Roster of Company E. 
Captain H. C. Brown, commissioned February 1, 1899. 



History of the 160th I. Y. I. 



First Lieutenant, L. A. Burgan, commissioned February 

1, 1899. 
Second Lieutenant, Fred. J. Tangeman, commissioned 

February 1, 1S99. 
Sergeants — 

Jacob M Kress, 1st Sergt, 

Pence, S O, Com, Sergt. 

Meyers, Dillon 



Britt, Jacob H 
McCormick, John W 
Wasson, Herbert H 



Corporals— 
McGinness, Earl (R) 

Bennet, O L 

Jones, Wm G 

Smith, X Frank 

Ernst, Wm W 

Johnson, Emmil M 

Oneil, Chas 
Artificer— Master son, John A. 
Wagoner— Hart, George 
Privates— 

Bass, J Homer (R) 

Baughman, Wm J 

Bixler, Harry (R) 

Bray, Jesse (R) 

Brickley, Samuel J (R 

Burgner, Harry D (R) 

Cotton, Marshall S 

Davis, Bruce 

Dunn, Chas R 

Franks, Wm J 

Graf, John 

Hammond, Ashley 

Hisper, Bert M 

Huffman, Chas W 



Morehead, Chas F 
Worster, Strand D 
Thomas, Ralph 
Brunn, Walter W 
Hackney, Chas A 
Bonham, Carl 



Barret, John (R) 
Bays, Chas M 
Brickley, Philo M (R) 
Bennett, R C 
Buckels, Cliffton C 
Cookerly, Rollie (R) 
Christ, Jessie 
DeHart, .James E 
Eggleston, U G 
Eggleston, H T 
Hackett, Dennis (R) 
Hill, Geo R (R) 
Houtz, Henry L 
Hurt, Jacob H 



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Jones, Samuel K 
Keogh, Thomas 
Kerfoot, Thomas 
Lopsiger, Chas 
Moore, Frank 
Morrow, Joseph 
Morris, Wm D 
Mosure, Chas 
O'Donnell, Harry 
Ripple, Elmer E 
Robinson, William 
Schleg-el, Jacob C 
Studebaker, Clem (R) 
Tribolet, Geo J 
Weaver, Orris (R) 
Weaver, Ray (R) 
Wilson, Edgar M 
Yarger, Wm J R 



Kapp, Frank T 
Lewis, Frank 
McBride, Carl W 
McCormick, Frank 
Moore, Edward C 
Mosure, Edward (R) 
Milholland, Kendry 
Nolan, Thomas H 
Philips, Bert 
Priest, Howard 
Reiff, William (R) 
Sinninger, Cal 
Sniler, Berc 
Wasmuth, Harry (R) 
Williams, John E 
Wilhelm, Fred 
Wisner, Sharpe { R ) 
Wisner, Horace L (R) 



Company F. 

The home of Company F is Os.sian, Intl., where 
the company was organized as company of I. i*^. 
G. by Captain Derr. On July 1st it was recruited 
to a maximum, a majority of the recruits being- 
from Montpelier, Ind. Men enlisted on July 1st 
are distinguished with an "R." 

There was one death and two desertions, as 
noted below. 

Sergeant— Levi A. Todd, discharged Jan. 31, 1899. 
Corporal— Frank Nelson, deserted Sept. 19, 1898. 
Privates — 

Converse Lucas, died Nov. 8, 1898. 

Robert L Bryan (R), deserted Oct. 29, 1898. 



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History of the IGOtii I. Y. I. 



Ottis F. Bowman, discharged January 31, 1899. 

Chas. Murfey (R), discharged Jan, 31, 1899. 

Marion P. Allen, discharged January 31, 1899. 

Fred. Shields (R), transf. to U. S. Hospital Corps. 

Wm. Dollman, transf. to U. S. Hospital Corps. 

Albert Millington, discharged March 31, 1899. 
Roster at Muster-Out. 
Captain E. P. Derr. 2d Lieut., Geo. M. Mills. 

1st Lieut., R Floyd Wilson 1st Sergt., Stanley Allen. 
Sergeants — 

Allen, Lafayette Norris, Palmer O 

Deam, Warner Duncan, Wm 

Hoopingardner, W 
Corporals— 



Beaty, V H 

Beaty, Harry 

Glass, Fred 

Hartley, Frank 

Coleman, Alfred (R) 

McAfee, Ernie 
Musicians— 

Wagner, Clyde 
Artificer— Hedges, Edward R 
Cook — Alberson, Samuel 
Privates— 

Alberson, Dennis 

Barnes, Wm 

Baker, 1 D 

Barchman, Arthur (R) 

Cunningham, E Q ( R) 

Crown, Sylvester (R) 

Cronin, David (R) 

Crosby, Rule 



Foughty, Frank 
Wolfcale, Davis 
Koons, James P 
Piggott, Frank (R) 
Deam, Chas 
Foster, Clio (R) 

Reed, H C 



Mote, Harry (R) 
McTaggert, Jesse (R) 
Nolan, John 
Norris, Marvin 
Patie, John 
Pugh, Otto 
Reed, John 
Riley, Frank 



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87 



Cartwright, James 
Clark, Frank 
Crowell, C C 
Donaldson, Wesley (R) 
Fatscher, Henry 
Fultz, Ellis (R) 
Fuchshuber, G C 
Grames, James 
Harris, Leon 
Hoopengardner, M 
Hays, Floyd 
Hency, John 
Johnson, Samuel 
Johnson, Bert 
Kerr, John 
Lawrence, Luther 
Lutz, Cassius 
Lininger, Frank 
McClish, Chas 
Murfey, Chas O 
Mills, Fred 
Milliken, James 
Mitchel, Chas 
Miller, Ernest 
McKinsie, Joseph 
Mills, Robt. L 
Mills, Charlie 



Reece, Jacob 
Storms, D K 
Shock, A B 
Simmons, Geo 
Snarr, Frank 
Swaim, Charles 
Stroub, Wm (R) 
Swindler, James (R) 
Shamberger, Em (R) 
Schenk, Benjamin (R) 
Twibell, Edward 
Tinsley, Charles 
Turnock, Samuel 
Thomas, Grant 
Tisron, Robert 
Wickens, Geo 
Wilmington, DeChamp 
Woods, Artmas 
Walker, Wm 
Ward, Chas (R) 
Williams, John (R) 
Wilson, Wm (R) 
Wilson, James L 
Wilson, John P 
Wilson, Frank 



Company G. 

Carapany G was organized at Columbia City 
and when enlisted in tlie U. S. service was one 
of the oldest organizations of the j^ational Guard 
of Indiana. On June 21, 1898, the number of 



88 History of the 1(30x11 I. A'. I. 

men was increased to a maximum. The number 
was afterward reduced by : 
Sergeants — 

Thomas Gallivan, discharged Nov. 14, 1898. 

John Washburn, discharged Feb. 16, 1899. 

Doctor J. Reese, discharged Nov. 16, 1898. 

Edwin M. Brown, discharged March 2, 1899. 
Corporals — 

James B. Case, discharged January 31, 1899. 

Charles Kronk, transferred to the Regimental Band. 

Wm. Gardner, discharged Nov. 16, 1898. 

Fred M. Ruckman, discharged Feb. 11, 1899. 
Musician— Frank Wallace, transferred to Reg. Band. 
Privates— 

Russell Brenneman, discharged March 5, 1899. 

Ervin Brown, discharged March 2, 1899. 

Simon Brown, deserted October 23, 1898. 

Judson Baker (R), died in Hospital Dec. 4, 1898. 

Eli Brown, discharged Jan. 31, 1899. 

Frank Clark, discharged Feb. 11, 1899. 

Charles Brand (R), discharged Dec. 2, 1898. 

Joseph Hamonbill, discharged October 8, 1898 

Paul Harshbarger, transf. to U. S. Hospital Corps. 

James Klingaman (R), deserted October 23, 1898. 

John Kane (R), discharged January 31, 1898. 

Frank Mittin, discharged January 31, 1899. 

Frank Nott (R), discharged December 21, 1898. 

Nathanael Vernon, discharged Nov. 2, 1898. 

John Whiteleather, discharged April 9, 1899. 

Roster at Muster-Out. 

Capt. Jos. R. Harrison. 
1st Lieut., David S. Linvill, M. D. 



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89 



2d Lieut , L. D Clapham. 
1st Sergeant, Simon P. Clapham. 
Sergeants— 

Otis Malone Byron P. Wallace 

Aug-ust E Erdmon John Clapham 

Wayman Warner 
Corporals — 

Alfred M. Course Elmer Cotton 

S. M. Markley David Croxton 

Elmer E Pence Jethro Fuller 

Ralph M. Fonty Frank Hoi brook 

Walter Clark James Kinney 



Horace Miller 
Musician — O. P. M. Squires. 
Artificer— Fred. D. Waterfall. 
Wagoner— Wm. H. Hoose 
Privates — 

Anthese, Adolph 

Binkley, Louis 

Barr, Alfred 

Butler, Richard 

Crowell, Chas 

Chapman, Carlos D 

Croy, James 

Erb, Howard 

Fullam, John 

Ferguson, Chas (R) 

Gruesbeck, Fred 

Graves, Laurtis 

Garty, Robert (R) 

Jackson, Lawrence 

.Johnston, James 

Long, Peter 



Horatio Squires 



Binkley, Daniel 
Bryan, Howard 
Buntain, Alvia 
Crowell, Sai 
Curtis, Elmer 
Connolly. John 
Dull, Charles 
Eastom, Clarence (R 
Fletcher, James (R) 
Graves, Edward 
Gross, Raymond 
Gilbert, Willis (R) 
Haynes, Jed 
Jellison, Robert 
Klingaman, Gid (R) 
Lowery, Albert 



90 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Monroe, Stephen More, Charles 

Myers, Sankey Miller, Harry (R) 

Nott, George Neiswonger, Elza (R) 

Norris, Fred Pickard, Walter 

Pine, Charles Prugh, Ray 

Rapp, Fred Rapp, John 

Reid, Ralph Russel, Earl 

Rindfusy, Clyde (R) Shafer, Calvin 

Slenty, Brodie Slessman, William 

Smith, Mell Smoots, John 

Sander, Ed Waugh, Harvey (R) 

Webber, Harry Winegardner, Adrain 



Company H. 

Co. H's home is Warsaw, where it was organ- 
ized as a company of National Guards. 

In June of 1898 the strength was increased to 
the maximum number of men. 

"While in Cuba this company was a part of the 
provost guard that so effectually preserved 
order. 

Following are the changes in the Company 
Roster : 

Sergeants— 

Silas C. Sapp, died Sept. 15, 1898. 

Allen C. Scott, discharged Nov. 14, 1898. 

Edward B. Foulke, discharged Jan. 4, 1899. 
Corporals — 

C. D. Phereerrell, discharged Dec. 5, 1898. 

Herbert C. Lehman, discharged Jan. 4, 1899. 
Musicians — 

Maurice Wilcox, transf. to Reg. Band. 

Ernest E. Pollock, transferred to N. C. Staff. 



IX THE Spanish-American War. 91 

Artificer — Foster Hall, discharged Dec. 11, 1898. 

Privates — 

Earl Coyner, transferred to Regimental Band. 

Chas. E. Sinton, transf. to U. S. A. Hosp. Corps. 

Roy Mulford, transf. to U. S. A. Hosp. Corps. 

Isaac Sandford, transf. to U. S. A. Hospital Corps. 

James A. Wilcox, transf. to U. S. A. Hosp. Corps. 

Frank White, transferred to Regimental Band. 

Robert C. Reid (R), transf. to First Terr. Vol. Inft. 

John T. Reid (R), transf. to Co. D, 160th Indiana. 

Otto A. Reid (R), transf. to Co. D, 160th Indiana. 

Ira Kuhn, discharged Oct. 9, 1898. 

N. G. Maguire, discharged Oct. 24, 1898. 

Thomas A. Delia, discharged Oct. 15, 1898. 

Chas. H. Stewart (R), discharged Nov. 26, 1898. 

Noah Baugher, discharged Jan. 4, 1898. 

Thomas Ryland, discharged Jan. 13, 1899. 

Curtis S. Sarber (R), discharged Feb. 1, 1899. 

Roy Sloane, discharged Feb. 1, 1899. 

James E Carver (R), discharged March 4, 1899. 

Edward Vanator, discharged March 31, 1899. 

Geo. W. McVicker (R), discharged March 31, 1899. 

Hamilton B. Paul, died June 14, 1898. 

Chas. W. Warren, deserted Aug. 3, 1898. 

Roster of Company H at Muster-Out. 

Capt. Charles A. Sharp. 2d Lieut., Wm. L. Hughes. 

1st Lieut., E. G. Hinkley. 1st Sergt., Wm. J. Hafert. 
Sergeants— 

Herbert C. Kehler. James M. Bennet. 

Martin M. Egner. James W. Pepper. 

Fred. Davis. 



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Corporals — 

Edgar E. Lehman 

Fred. B. Mote. 

Than Miller. 

Oliver P. Smith. 

Malvin W. Minear. 

Ernest E. 
Artificers— 

Verne C. Carr (R) Cook 

Privates— 

Chas. A. Adams 
Eben BolT 
Clarence Bird 
Alva W. Bumliour 
Earl A. Coflfea 
Chas. Garsline 
Orville Kilmer 
Alonzo Lehman 
George Loved ay 
Chas McCarter 
Howard J. Nefl 
Ames Orcutt 
Henry Rankin 
Conrad Schade 
Vernie Seymour 
Otho Simpson 
Fred. E. Smith 
Andrew J. Snoke 
Donald Stewart 
George B. Ward 
Emery Wilcoxan 
Daniel A Bowman (R) 
Scott E. Harris (R) 



John C. Meek. 
Edwin M. Ripple. 
Homer B. Phillips. 
Thomas Dwyer. 
John S. Williams. 
Philpot. 

Elliot R. Sherburn (R) 

John Aller 
I. N. Bell 
Walter Brubaker 
Garfield Chilcoto 
Geo. Dunfee. 
Sanford Hill 
Howard LaFollette 
Lewis Longacre 
John C. Matthews 
Martin McClintic 
Edward Newcomb 
B. T. Orcutt 
Harry O. Rhoades 
Ernest L. Scott 
George Shock 
Wilbur Sloane 
Worley Smith 
Dan. J. Spillman 
Fred. Swihart 
Ardon C. Wilcox 
George McCleary (R) 
George C Hann (R) 
Harry E. Keith (R) 



IX THE Spanish-American War. 93 

Chas. M. Kiste (R) Roy Moore (R) 

Will McLaughlin (R) William Ply (R) 

Herman Wiley (R) Wm D Watson (R) 

Soil W. Foote (R) John C. Bockman (R) 

Lewis W. Brown (R) Chas F. Harter (R) 

Arthur Kuhn ( R) Chas. A. Powers (R) 

Clark Chapman ( R) Louis E. Coleman (R) 



Company I. 

At the outbreak of the late war Company I 
was organized at Tipton, and Geo. Dwyer -was 
coRimissioned Captain. On Xov. 19th, 1898, 
Capt. Dyer resigned, Kobert M. Tun Buskirk, 
1st Lieut., w^as commissioned to till the vacancy, 
2d Lieut. George Knee promoted to 1st Lieut., 
and 1st Sergt. Jesse Barlow to 2d Lieut. 

On June 27th the strength of this Company 
was increased to 105 officers and enlisted men. 

The changes in the roster are here noted : 

Sergeant— AUea Gilford, tran&f. to U. S. Bo.^p Corps. 
Corporals— 

Wm. Brothers, discharged March 14, 1899. 

Frank Logan, discharged March 27th, 1899. 

Wilbur W. Wolverton, discharged Jan. 13, 1899. 
Wagoner— Fred. Jarret, discharged March 27, 1899. 
Privates — 

Dillon Alexander, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Nalzo Andrews, died Aug. 18, 1898. 

C. Coyle, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Theodore Cox, discharged March 27, 1899. 

Chas. B. Franklin, discharged Feb. 24, 1899. 

Edward Franklin (R), deserted Jan. 23, 1899. 



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History of the 160th I. V. I. 



James GUlen, discharged Jan. 31, 1P99. 

Geo. A. Lane, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Chas. Leach, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

LeRoy Long, discharged March 27, 1899. 

Jos. L. Lovejoy, transferred to U. S. Hospital Corps. 

James A. Midtiff, deserted Dec. 30, 1898. 

Joseph Partlow. discharged Jan. 30, 1899. 

Albert W. Pickett (R), discharged Jan. 4, 1899. 

Cbas. W. Purvis (R), discharged March 18, 1899. 

Carl C. Rubush (R), discharged Dec. 16, 1898. 

Wm. Temple, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Geo. Vowter, died Oct. 9, 1898. 

Roster at Muster-Out. 
Capt. Robert M. VanBuskirk 2d Lieut. Jesse E. Barlow 
let Lieut. Geo. A. Knee 1st Sergt. Horace Matthews 

Sergeants— 

Harry Hues 
James W. Russell 
Cleo Mourt 



Harry Mitchell 
Edward Grisham 



Corporals— 

Clarence Law 

Frank Rice (R) 

Francis Kramer (R) 

Chas. Snider 

Jacob J. Tennison 

Chas. Zauss 
Cook— A. O. Smith 
Artificer — Wm. Henderson 
Musicians— 

Harry Hucthins 
Privates — 

Jno J. Altmeyer 

Wm Bailey [RJ 



Albert Eaton 
Harry Phares 
Robert Haskett 
Walker Xapier 
Geo. Dowell 
Otho McKay 



Wm. McCreary 

Marion Basey 
Walter Barbo 



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95 



Edward Burnes 
Wm. R. Day 
Herman Dever 
Harry Douglas 
Clem. Furry 
Geo. Grisham 
Harry Herman 
Henry Hedrick 
Jasper Henry 
Gust. Klappham 
Peter W. Lamb 
Geo. Mossman [R] 
Buzz Moreland 
Wm. Nelson [R] 
Jesse Norris 
Monroe Partlow 
Theo. Philpott [R] 
Oliver Pickeral 
Fred. Racobs 
Antoine Reed [R] 
Richard Smith 
Daniel Swartz 
Jerry Spaulding 
Roily Thurman 
Howard Umpreys 



Arlie Cook 
Carl M. Campbell 
Edward Douglas 
Estie Fields 
Edward Garretson 
Benj. Garbit [R] 
Frank Hoback 
Dan Hoveas 
Harry Justus 
Wm. Kennedy [R] 
Otto Matthews [R] 
Geo. Martin 
David McNew 
Jbo. Norris 
Harry Pancake 
Gussie Paul [R] 
Wm. Phillips 
Peter Peal 
Wm. Rhoades 
Isaac Russell [R] 
Dilver Seright 
Otto Snyder [R] 
Elmer Taylor 



Wm. Tobin 
Clarence Woodruff 
Claude Wilson 



Company K. 

Company Iv was organized at Huntington at 
the outbreak of the late war. On June 17th, 
1898, it was recruited to the maximum strength. 

The changes in the roster of this company are 
here noted. 



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History of the 160th I. V. I. 



Sergeant— Otis W. Hadley, discharged Jan. 10, 1899. 
Corporal— Edis Gebler, discharged March 30, 1899. 
Musician— Bert. Bolinger, discharged March 14, 1899. 
Wagoner— Henry H. Snyder, discharged Oct. 26, 1898. 




THOMAS W. BEEL, SERGEANT. 

Privates— 

Henry S. Altenbach, died July 30, 1898. 

Lou S. Khin, transferred to U. S. Signal Corps. 

Ray Lamoree, discharged Jan. 30, 1899. 

Wm. J. Morris, discharged Feb. 15, 1899. 

Frank Rosebrough, died July 22, 1898. 

Samuel Stickle, discharged Nov. 7, 1898. 

Herman Terflinger, discharged Dec. 8, 1898. 

Benj. G. Thrasher, discharged Jan. 30, 1898. 

Wm. H. Culler, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Frank Drabenstat, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Leroy W- Strass, discharged Jan. 30, 1899. 



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97 



Roster at Muster-Out, 

Capt. Orison P. Lee 2d Lieut. Herbert B. Spencer 

1st Lieut. Leonard F. Wood 1st Sergt. Will H. Bloss 
Sergeants— 



Edgar R. Creamer 

Wm. S. Marford 

Howard O. Powell 
Corporals— 

Calvin P. Richards 

Fred. G. Kern 

Eugene Tooper 

Carl P. Steele [R] 

Clarence Lovill 

Chester L. Sprinkle 

Chas. H. Plasterer 

John J. Fryer 
Musicians— 

Walter B. Parry 

Artificer— Oscar L. Keiser 
Wagoner— John F. Cook 
Privates — 

Attenbach, Wm G 

Baity, Edward S 

Brown, John M. 

Busher, Chas M 

Cole, Thomas J 

Eggiman, Charles P 

Faurote, Chas E 

Fetters, Earhart 

Fulton, Herbert M 

Hier, Matthew W 

Jacobs, Fay 



Thos W. Beel 
Chas. A. Slusser 
Walter S. Mitchell 

Walter O. Bowman 
Robert R. Glum 
Oren Kunce 
Alexander C. Common 
Herman B. Simonton 
Edward A. Shock [RJ 
Levi Saylor 



Ray Day 



Anson, Bert. 
Bretbruner, Wm W 
Brubacker, Charles 
Burman, Wm C 
Duff, Aaron J 
Edsar, Harvey W 
Ferguson, Geo W 
Fisher, Harry 
Graver, Robert 
Hughes, Howard W 
Kit], Milton J 



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History of the 160th I. Y. I. 



Klein, John J 
Layman, Wilbur 
Lerr, Bert E 
Miller. Chas R 
Morgan, Wm J 
Rathgeber, Jacob W 
Reiferti Otto D 
Seber, Oliver 
Smith, Odis 
Spigelmyre, Ford E 
Whitehurst, Jacob W 
Yeater, R H 
Baker, Ed F (R) 
Burman, Herman (R) 
Erlinbaugh, Wm (R) 
Gussman, A L (R) 
Johnson, Leroy (R) 
Kitt, Morton (R) 
Miller, Wm H (R) 
Pfeifer, Geo D (R) 

Stalder, 



Kumler, Oliver M 
Leicht, William 
Lyon, Clarence 
McLean, John F 
Pressel, Ira O 
Reed, Fred 
Robinson. John C 
Shampi Carl 
Snoke, Wm H 
Voght, Edward M 
Wright, Harvey W 
Alles, Jacob W (R) 
Bochner, John (R) 
Custard, John F (R) 
Fetters, Samuel (R) 
Hippensteil, HarvR(R) 
Kesler, Herman B (R) 
Mayre, Robt C (R) 
Myers, John W (R) 
Sprinkle, Roscoe M (R) 
Henry W (R) 



Company L. 

When war with Spain seemed sure, Company 
L. was organized at Anderson by Capt. Burr, 
and mustered into the National Guard. 

On June 21, 1898, this company was recruited 
to a maximum. Men enlisted on June 21 are 
marked "R." 

Three men were transferred from the First 
W. Va. Vol. The name and date of transfer is 
as tollows : 




ED. MILLER, MAJOR. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 101 

Privates— 

Elmer Cummlngs, March 3, 1899. 
Thomas C. Smith, Feb. 5, 1899. 
W. B. Sine, Jr., Jan. 24, 1899. 

The following were discharged or transferred : 
Corporal — Howard F. Henry, discharged Oct. 25, 1898, 
Privates— 

C. S. Burr, discharged Dec. 18, 1898. 

Harry Crull, discharged Feb. 11, 1899. 

John Coburn (R), discharged Dec. 31, 1898. 

John T. Lay, discharged Dec. 31, 1898. 

Bert. Munyan [R], discharged Jan. 15, 1898. 

Othello Roach, discharged Nov. 7, 1898. 

Israel Brown, deserted Nov. 9, 1898. 

O. F. Fickle, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Ed. Inclenrock, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Butler Livesay, transferred to IT. S. Signal Corps. 

W. S Wagoner, transferred to U. S. Hosp. Corps. 

Oscar Wynn [R], died Oct. 13, 1898, at Lexington. Ky. 
Roster of Company L at Muster-Out. 
Capt. Kenneth M. Burr 2d Lieut. Geo. C. Sausser. 

1st Lieut. J. B. Collins. 1st Sergt. Herbert C. Brunt 

Sergeants— 

John J. Ellis Chauncey O. Towell 

Lee C. Newsom D. V. Martin 

Dorr S. Worden. 

Corporals— 

John A. Ross Roy N. Nichols 

James O. Paltee Chas. Tharp 

Geo. Beason Ruel E. Davenport 

John L. Hopper Robert Moon 

Richard Welsh [R] Charles Weger 

Charles Fisher 



102 History of the 160th 1. V. I. 

ARTIFICER — Arthur Rhonewus [R] 
Cook — Lee Weger. 
Wagoner — Thomas Dee. 
Privates— 



Aldred, Howard 
Behtold, G A 
Bond, G W 
Baily, Carl G 
Brown, C M 
Bosworth, I G [R] 
Baker, Jos 
Carpenter, E E 
Cooper, Bert J 
Cole, Clement C 
Dunbar, Enos J 
Eaton, Edward 
Evans, Francis [R] 
Fountain, Jas A 
Griffith, H Z [R] 
Hiniger, E L 
Hayes, John S [R] 
Jeffers, Roy S [R] 
Kiecher, John F 
Keckler, Frank [R] 
Loch, Lewis 
Lycan, Wm P 
Linstrrm, Oscar 
Medsker, Byron 
Mingle, W W 
Murphy, Robert 
McConnell, Robert [R] 
Mansfield, Wm. [R] 
Ricketts, Amos [R] 



Atrim, Robert 
Boyd, Charles 
Benbow, F M 
Broman, Wm H 
Bush, Henry 
Bonhomme, J [R] 
Bidwell, Chas [R] 
Carpenter, C A 
Cumberledge, W J 
Deitrich, Herman 
Denney, Manford 
Falknor, C R 
Fisher, H H 
Garrison, Levi 
Hunt, Volney M J 
HoUenbeck, M A 
Hawkins, H C [R] 
Keorper, John 
Kendrie, H M 
Kellar, Oscar 
Lawson, Omer 
Levy, F M, Jr 
Moore, Harry 
Morer, E B 
Martin, J T 
Miller, James 
Moulden, Howard [R] 
Rosenfeld, H 
Radway, L E [R] 




(iEORCiE B. BOWERS. 



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Shaffer, C. M. Seybert, C [R] 

Smith, Jos H Stark, John [R] 

Thomas, Harry Frees, R C 

Wilson, F M Williams, Wm 

Wilson, R L Williamson, L C 



Company M. 

The home of Co, M is at Logansport. At the 

second call for volunteers it was recruited to a 

maximum. 

Sergeant — 

Charles Richardson, discharged Feb. 24, 1899 

Corporal— 

Lucien Fourmier. discharged March 10, 1899 

Artificer— 

James Holman, discharged Feb. 25, 1899 

Privates— 

Asmus, Gust, discharged Jan. 31, 1899 
Booth, Edwin B., discharged Dec. 12, 1898 
Grant, William R., discharged March 28, 1899 
Grainger, John 1., discharged Feb. 28, 1899 
Hanna, Thomas J., discharged Feb. 1, 1899 
McElheny, Thomas J., discharged Jan. 25, 1899 
Putnam, John W., discharged Jan. 31, 1899 
Ray, Clare M., discharged Dec, 19, 1898 
Williams, Charles S., discharged March 10, 1899 
Catterlin, Fenton, discharged, date not known 
Smith, Leroy, discharged, date not known 
Boyer, Alex, trans, to U. S. V. Signal Corps, July 

8, 1898 
Cramer, Fred, trans, to Reg'l Band, May 25, 1898 
Commons, Alexander C, trans, to Co. K, 160th, I. V. 
I., Aug. 11, 1898 



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History of the 160th I. V. I. 



Izor, Emmett, trans, to U. S. Hospital Corps, Nov. 

18, 1898 
Kearns, Prank C, trans, to Regimental Band, May 

25. 1898 
Patterson, Albert, trans, to U. S. Hospital Corps, 

July 19, 1898 
Wetsel, George H., trans. U. S. Hospital Corps, Nov. 

12, 1898 
Rizor, Orestes D., died Nov. 8, 1898 

Roster Co. M. 

Captain, David S. Bender 1st Lieut. William C. Dunn 

2nd Lieut. Leroy Pitch 
Sergeants— 

Walter J. Behmer 

Prank Burket 

Robert B. Gemmill 
Corporals— 

Alva A. Crooks 

Charles G Souders 

Harry A. Osborne 

Robert Denbo 

Harry Pickell 

Wise Ayers 
Musicians— 

Kirk Castle 
Artificer— James W. Elliott 
Cook— John W. Powell 
Privates— 

Albert, Anthony 

Banta, Charles 

Banta, Beaufort 

Cripe, John W. 

Castle, Burt 



Q. M., James Johnson 
William G. Huckleberry 
Thomas H. Crawford 

Clarence Johnson 
Isaac N. Gipe 
Hal T. Viney 
Leroy Hewlett 
Charles Bruner 
Charles Bear 

Fred White 



Albert, William H. 
Barron, Leon L. 
Carroll, Owen 
Crockett, Charles 
Cory, Harry 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 107 



DeLawter, Jesse 
Dryer, Gust 
Frushour, Francis 
Fos]er, William 
Geig-er, Frank 
Gibson, Arthur 
Griffin, John H. 
Hager, Matthew 
Hutton, Edwin L 
Howser, Calvin E. 
Jackson, Ira T, 
Laemle, Daniel W. 
McGinley, John 

Merritt, Elmer 

Moore, William 

O'Riley, John 

Patton, Jesse B 

Ray, John F. 

Robertson, Rennie 

Rupp, Jacob 

Bunyon, Alden C. 

Shewman, Joseph 

Surgart, John F. 

Voll, Robert 



Dolan, James 
Fisher, Oocar B. 
Fox, Emanuel 
Gates, William R, L. 
Gemmill, Thomas B. 
Griffin, William 
Gall. Edward 
Hinkle, Jonathan 
Hartman, Henry 
Jackson, Ernest 
Kerns, Charles W. 
Ludwig, Samuel 
Meden, Albert 
Myers, Rollin H. 
Newby, John A. 
Peck, Charles 
Powell, Anson B. 
Rennells, Benjamin H. 
Rollings, William 
Rollings, Lee Z. 
Schmerber, William 
Stoughton, Arthur 
Snyder, Maklon 
Wallrath, Henry 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



Biographies of Officers* 



George W. Gunder, Colonel. 

Colonel Guncler was born in Darke county, 
Ohio, in 1842, and reared on the farm. At the 
age of ten years he removed with liis parents to 
Montgomery county, Ohio. He attended the 
common school until fifteen years old, when he 
entered the seminary at Louisburg, Ohio, gradu- 
ating two years later. Soon after graduation he 
began teaching school and followed that voca- 
tion three years. 

At the commencement of the great Civil War, 
Colonel Gunder gave up the civil pursuits of life 
to begin his military career as a private in Co. 
B, of the 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Al- 
though enlisting as a private, he was mustered 
into the army as first sergeant, holding that 
rank until September, 1862, when he was com- 
missioned second lieutenant and assigned to Co. 
G, of the same regiment. In the beginning of 
1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant and 
assigned to the company in which he enlisted. 
During the summer of 1864, he sers^ed as Acting 
Assistant Adjutant General in the defenses ol 
the Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad. He 
participated in the Battle of Shiloh, the cam- 
paign against Corinth, the second Battle of Ft. 



110 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Donelsou, and served in the campai^^n against 
Atlanta, in Thomas' March, and the Battle of 
Nashville. The war closing in 1865, Colonel 
Gander was mustered out, and returning to his 
home he entered the mercantile business. In 
1868, he removed to Marion, Indiana, and con- 
tinued in the same business until the late war. 
Colonel Gunder organized a company of the 
Indiana Legion in 1885, which was assigned and 
mustered in as Co. D, Third Regiment of Indi- 
ana Legion, he being commissioned Captain. 
After serving as Captain three years, he was 
commissioned Major of the Third Battalion, 
Third Regiment, Indiana Legion. With this 
regiment he was in camp at LaFayette, Evans- 
ville and Indianapolis. He was commissioned 
Colonel in the Indiana- Legion in 1891, and dur- 
ing the Chicago riots in 1894, was in command 
of all the State troops at that place, which were 
six companies of the Fourth Regiment, six of 
the Third Regiment and three of the Second 
Regiment. When the Indiana Legion was 
transferred to the Indiana National Guard, Col- 
onel Gunder retained his rank as Colonel of the 
Fourth Infantry, and since 1895 has been Senior 
Colonel of the Indiana National Guard. After 
the State troops were mustered into the Federal 
Service, Governor Mount assigned Colonel 
Gunder to the command of all troops at Camp 
Mount. 

After Brigadier General Fred D. Grant had 
left for Porto Rico, Colonel Gunder had com- 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 113 

maiicl of all the troops in Camp Grant at Xew- 
port jS^ews, Va.; he afterward commanded a 
brigade at Camp Hamilton, Ky., and later the 
brigade at Camp Conrad, Ga. 



W. L. Ki§:er, Lieutenant Colonel. 

Lieutenant Colonel Iviger first learned mili- 
tary duties under the direction of a regular 
army officer while a cadet in the Ohio State 
University', afterward serving two years in Sixth 
Infantry, Ohio Xational Guard. On December 
12, 1890, he was elected Captain of Co. E, Fourth 
Infantry, Indiana State Guards, commissioned 
Major in the same regiment in April of 1892, 
and Lieutenant Colonel in the Fourth Infantry, 
Indiana National Guard in August of 1895. 
He was in active service during the Hammond 
riots of 1894, and was in command of the regi- 
ment. Lieutenant Colonel Kiger was born at 
Lancaster, Ohio, February 3, 1861, reared on the 
farm, he attended the public school, but at the 
age of sixteen entered the Chillicothe High 
School. After graduating from the high school 
he entered the Ohio State L'niversity, where he 
took a course in civil engineering. After grad- 
uating, he followed his chosen profession for 
two years, abandoning it to embark in the hard- 
ware trade at Stelopolis, Iowa, where he re- 
mained until 1886. On leaving Iowa, he went 
to Blufftou, Indiana, where he was employed by 



114 History of the IGOth I. Y. I. 

the Williamson Bros., hardware merchants. 
Later Williamson Bros, formed the firm of the 
Williamson Hardware Co., of wdiich Lieutenant 
Colonel Kiger became a member. Lieutenant 
Colonel Kiger has a wnfe and child; he was 
married to Miss Alice Beek, of Lancaster, Ohio. 
He is a Presbjterian, taking an active part in 
church work. Although a Republican in a city 
where Democrats predominate, he was elected a 
member of the Bluffton Board of Education, 
serving three years in that office. 



John J. Kyle, Major and Surgeon. 

John J. Kyle, M. D., was born in Aurora, 
Indiana, in 1868, is the son of Dr. Thomas M. 
Kyle, a prominent surgeon of Indiana, wdio died 
February 11, 1899. He received his prepara- 
tory education in Moore Hill College, from 
which he graduated w^ith the Degree of Bache- 
lor of Science. Choosing medicine as a pro- 
fession, he attended the Miami Medical College, 
and graduated in 1889 with the Degree of Doctor 
of Medicine. He lived in Aurora until 1894, 
then located in Marion, Indiana, wdiere he prac- 
ticed medicine, making a specialty of treating 
the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. 

To further his success, he went abroad in 1895, 
spending that year in study at the L^niversity 
of Berlin and Moorsfield Hospital at London. 



IN THE Spanish-Amekican War. 115 

Major Kyle lias contributed to such medical 
journals as the American Journal of Ophtham- 
ology, the Journal of the American Medical 
Association, and the Journal of Ophthamologic- 
He is a prominent member of the American 
Medical Association and the Western Ophtham- 
ologic and Oto Laryngologic Association. Of the 
fraternal organizations, he is an earnest member 
of the Knight Templars and Order of Elks. 
During eight years Major Kyle was Assistant 
Surgeon of the 4th Infantry Indiana National 
Guard, and at the outbreak of the Spanish- 
American war, gave up a large and lucrative 
practice to enter the army. May 4th, 1898, he 
was commissioned Major and Surgeon and as- 
signed to the 160th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 
At Camp Thomas, he was detailed Surgeon in 
charge of the Second Division, First Army Corps, 
Ambulance Corps. In August he accompanied 
the regiment to Newport News, wbere he was 
Chief Surgeon of Camp Grant. At Lexington, 
Ky., he was Acting Brigade Surgeon, serving on 
the Staff of Brigad^ier General Wiley. On Oct. 
22, 1898, he was sent to Columbus, Ga., to estab- 
lish the First Brigade Hospital, of the First 
Army Corps. The Hospital established was a 
model in every respect. This was recognized by 
Brigadier General Sanger who issued a special 
order complimenting Major Kyle very highly. 
Dec. 22, 1899, he returned to the regiment and 
later served with it in Cuba. 



116 History of the IGOtii I. V. I. 

Lawrence E. Barter, Major, First Battalion. 

Major Harter's military experience began as a 
private in Co. E, First Inftintry, Indiana State 
Legion, in 1888. After serving a year as a pri- 
vate, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant ot 
Co. K, Second Infantry, Indiana State Legion, 
and his next promotion was that of Captain ot 
Co. K, of the same regiment, afterwards trans- 
ferred to Co. K, Third Infantry. At the expira- 
tion of his term of enlistment he was again 
commissioned Captain and assigned to Co. H, 
Fonrtn Infantry, and on August 26, 1896, was 
commissioned a ^lajor in the Fourth Infantry, 
Indiana National Guard. On April 25, 1898, 
he was senior Major of the Fourth Infantry and 
mustered into the Volunteer Army on May 12, 
1898, as Major of the First Battalion. Previous 
to his enlistment in the Federal service, he was 
in active service during the Roby Riots in 1893, 
and the Hammond Riots in 1894. 

Major Harter was born in Warsaw, Indiana, 
March 11, 1861. When he was five months old 
his mother died, leaving him to be reared by his 
grandparents who resided on a farm; while there 
he attended the public school. Finishing the 
common school course, he attended the Warsaw 
High School graduating at the end of four years. 
All this time, he was compelled to work on the 
farm during the summer months to earn money 
to defray his school expenses. During the winter 
of 1881, he graduated from the Bryant & Strat- 
ton Business College, Chicago, 111. For the 




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following two years he was employed by the 
Adams and United States Express Go's, resign- 
ing that position to accept a position as book- 
keeper which he held five years. Leaving this 
position, he accepted a position as deputy sheriff, 
afterward serving as deputy surveyor, then as 
deputy treasurer. While serving in these differ- 
ent positions he tilled the office of City Clerk, 
holding this office five years. Major Harter was 
married to Miss Emma J. Valentine on Dec. 31, 
1881. His family consists of a wife and three 
children. 



John J. Backman, Major. 

Major John J. Backman w^as born in Aurora, 
Ind., Sept. 13, 1864, was reared in that city and 
began his education in its schools. After gradu- 
ating from the Aurora High School, he entered 
Rix's Collegiate School at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Graduating from that institution, he took a 
course in the Peekskill, X. Y. Military Academy 
and graduated in 1886. Successfully taking the 
entrance examination and being admitted into 
the Yale University, he was compelled to abandon 
on account of sickness, his ambition to further 
pursue his studies to tit him for a professional 
life. Being thus disappointed he turned his at- 
tention to business, fitting himself for that work 
by obtaining a business education in the Eastman 
Business College at Poughkeepsie, X. Y. 



120 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

His first business venture was the milling and 
grain business which he conducted for four years. 
Selling this business, he became one of the princi- 
pal stockholders in a company engaged in the 
manufacture of undertakers' supplies. At present 
he is its secretary and general manager. 

In 1894, Major Backman was elected City 
Clerk (A Aurora and re-elected in 1898, the duties 
of the office having been performed by a deputy 
during the Major's service in the army. Major 
Backman married Miss Lucie DuChemin in 
March of 1895. They have two children, a 
boy and a girl. Major Backman's educa- 
tion makes him very competent for a 
military command. He first applied his 
military knowledge in the organization of Co. F, 
Fourth Infantr}', Indiana National Guard of 
Aurora Ind., he being commissioned its first 
lieutenant. After three years of service, he was 
elected captain, his command seeing active ser- 
vice during two weeks at the Clark's Switch 
Strike. He served three years as captain, and 
on Oct. 7, 1896, was commissioned Major in the 
Fourth Infantry, Indiana National Guards. On 
May 12, 1898, he was comissioned Major in the 
Volunteer Army and assigned to the Second 
Battalion of the 160th Indiana Volunteer In- 
fantrv. 



Edmund P. Miller, Major. 

Edmund V. Miller was born on March 4, 1876, 
and reared in Adams county, Indiana. He was 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 121 

educated in tlje Decatur City Schools, gradu- 
ating from the High School m 1892. This same 
year he enlisted in Co. B, Fourth Regiment of 
the Indiana Legion, and the following year was 
made Corporal. He attended the camps of in- 
struction at Frankfort, Terre Haute and Indi- 
anapolis. In May of 1894, he received a com- 
mission as Second Lieutenant of Co. B, Fourth 
Regiment, Indiana Legion. During his term of 
service as Lieutenant he was on duty at the 
Hammond riots. 

In April of 1895, he was elected and commis- 
sioned Captain of ^Co. B, Fourth Infantry, Indi- 
ana National Guard, and re-elected in April of 
1898. He was promoted to the rank of Major, 
May 2, 1898, assigned to the Third Battalion 
and mustered into the Federal Service as >Lajor. 



Frank Wilbur Foxworthy, Captain and 
Assistant Sur§:eon. 

Frank Wilbur Foxworthy, M. D., Ph. B., 
the son of a Methodist minister, was born at 
Kentland, Indiana, October 22, 1873. His early 
boyhood was spent in Indiana, afterward mov- 
ing to Illinois. He attended the Pana, 111., 
High School, graduating in 1890 with first 
honors. The same year he entered the DePauw 
University, graduating with the degree of Ph. 
B. and from the Military School with the rank 



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History of the 160th I. Y. I. 



of Captain. While in college he was a member 
of the Phi Delta Theta. 

In August of 1894, Captain Foxwortliy en- 
tered the office of Dr. Joseph W. Marsee, Dean 
of the Medical College of Indiana, where he re- 




FRANK WILBUR FOX WORTHY, Captain and 
Assistant Surgeon. 

mained until April, 1897, during this time tak- 
ing a course in the Medical College of Indiana, 
the Medical Department of the ITniversit_y of 
Indianapolis and graduating March 31, 1897, 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 123 

with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After 
graduation he entered a competitive examina- 
tion and was appointed House Surgeon of the 
St. Vincent's Hospital of Indianapolis, resigning 
at the end of one year to enter the army. 

Previous to entering the U. S. service, he was 
a member of the Indiana National Guard, join- 
ing that organization in 1894, and serving on 
the staff of the chief medical officer, Colonel AV. 
M. Wright, until May 4, 1898, when he received 
his commission as Captain and Assistant Sur- 
geon of the 160th Indiana Volunteer Infantr}-. 
In June of 1898, he was detached from the regi- 
ment to serve as assistant to Colonel Xicholas 
Seun, at Leiter Hospital, and from August to 
December as assistant to Major Edgar A. 
Mearns, Chief Surgeon of the John Blair Gibbs 
General Hospital at Lexington, Ky. On Dec. 
26, 1898, he was appointed Surgeon of the Bri- 
gade Hospital, Columbus, Ga., serving there 
until the latter part of January, 1899, when he 
was ordered to Matanzas, Cuba. 



William J. Vigus, Chaplain. 

William Jordan Vigus was born July 25, 
1835, in Warminster, Xelson county, Virginia. 
In 1853 he came to Logansport, Indiana, and 
for a time was employed as a clerk in a store. 
The seven succeeding years were devoted in 



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History of the 160th I. V. I. 



teaching a select school, the public schools of 
Logansport and in the study of medicine. 

Having been connected with the Methodist 
Episcopal church for several years he entered 
the ministry of that church and in April, 1860, 
was admitted to the Xortli Indiana Conference 




WILLIAM J. VIGUS, Chaplain. 

and appointed to Mexico Circuit. He was sub- 
sequently appointed to Logansport, Centerville, 
Indianapolis, Kendallville, I'eru, Wabash, 
Muncie, Union City, Richmond, Anderson, 
AVarsaw District, and eleven years as superin- 
tendent of the American Bible Society for Indi- 
ana. In 1893 he received his degree of Doctor 
of Divinity. He was a member of Colonel Isaac 
Gray's regiment during the celebrated Morgan 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 125 

raid, the brigade being under the command of 
Gen. Wilson. Prior to this he assisted mater- 
ially in the recruiting service. He was a dele- 
gate to the National Encampment G. A. R. at 
Detroit, Mich. On December 12, 1898. he was 
appointed by Governor Mount, Chaplain of the 
160th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and joined 
the command at Camp Conrad, Columbus, Ga., 
and served as such during the Cuban campaign. 
Having no tent for public services, he conducted 
meetings in the open air, had song service, 
prayer meetings in private tents, visited the sick 
in hospital and in quarters, and made himself 
generally useful to friend at home and soldier in 
camp. 



Captain Bender, Co. M. 

D. S. Bender, Captain of Co. M, is a veteran 
oftAvowars. When the great civil war broke 
out he enlisted at the iirst call, but was rejected. 
He enlisted three times before he was accepted 
as a member of Co. I, 47th Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry. He was immediately made first cor- 
poral and soon afterward first sergeant. His 
efficiency as a soldier was recognized before he 
was twenty years of age by promotion to second 
lieutenant in March of 1863. He was in the 
Vicksburg campaign, and on Ma}' 16, at Cham- 
pion Hills, Miss., was wcninded in tlie right arm. 
He was promoted First Lieutenant in Septem- 



126 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

ber of 1864, to Captain in April of 1865, and 
mustered out J^ovember 1, 1865. He was mus- 
tered out as Captain of the company in which 
he enlisted as a private, iSTot contented with 
the honors of one war, on April 26, 1898, he or- 





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ganized Co. M, Fourth Infantry, Indiana Na- 
tional Guard, and was commissioned Captain. 

Captain Bender was born April 4, 1843, in 
Carlisle, Penna. When he was six years of age 
his parents removed to Huntington, Indiana, 
and two years later to Wabash county. He re- 
ceived a common school education, and at the 



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127 



age of thirteen made a ti'ip to Minnesota by 
stage and upon returning found his father en- 
gaged in a general merchandise business. He 
assisted his father in this business until 1861. 
After the Civil war and until the outbreak of 
the Spanish-American war he engaged in the 
drag trade and railway mail service. 



E. E. Derr, Captain Co. P. 

Captain Derr was born September 30th, 1866, 
in Wabash, Indiana, removing in 1872 with his 




E. E. DERR, Captain. 

parents to Ossian, Indiana, where he received 
his education in the public school. After attend- 
ing the Ossian High School, he spent one year 



128 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

In teaching. Purchasing a barber sliop, he en- 
gaged in that business up to the time of his en- 
listment in the army. On May 4, 1897, he or- 
ganized Co. F, Fourth Infantry, I. X. G., and 
was commissioned Captain. In February of 
1890, he was married to Miss Alice Woodward. 
They have two sons, Dale, six years of age, and 
Eussell, three years. Captain Derr was clerk 
and treasurer of Ossian at the time of his en- 
listment. 



Charles A. Sharp, Captain of Co. H. 

Captain Sharp enlisted in Company K, Second 
Regiment Indiana Legion, August 9, 1890, as a 
private ; attended the encampments as private, 
at Frankfort, and Fort AYayne as sergeant, Terre 
Haute and Indianapolis and the Roby and Ham- 
mond riots as second lieutenant. In September 
of 1895, he was elected first lieutenant and at- 
tended the encampment at Indianapolis, and on 
May 23, 1897, was elected captain of Co. H, 
Fourth Infantry, Indiana Xational Guard. 

Captain Sharp was born at Quincy, Ohio, Jan- 
uary 22, 1874, but removed to Springfield, Ohio, 
in 1880, and to Warsaw, Indiana, in 1887. He 
graduated from the Warsaw high school in 1881, 
and was afterward employed by the Pennsylva- 
nia R. R. Co. At the time of his enlistment he 
was deputy surveyor of Kosciusko county. 

He is a member of the Improved Order of 



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129 



Red Men, and a charter member of Camp Henry 
Clay Xo. 1, of the Service men of the Spanisli- 
American war. 



J. R. Wimmer, Captain Co. D. 

Captain J. R. Wimmer began his military 
career in 1893, as First Lieutenant of Co. ^D, 
Fourth Regiment, Indiana Legion. Serving his 




J R. WIMMER, Captain. 

term of enlistment, he mustered again in the 
same company and with the same rank. In 
June of 1896, he was commissioned Captain of 
Co. D, Fourth Infantry, Indiana National 
Guard. Durinw- his service as First Lieutenant, 



130 History of the 160tii I. V. I. 

he assisted in quelling the Hammond riots 
of 1894. 

Captain A^immer was born at Somerset, Indi- 
ana, in August of 1868. He received his edu- 
cation in the Wabash public schools, and choos- 
ing pharmacy as his profession, engaged in the 
drug trade twelve years. He was afterward 
employed by the Underwood Mfg. Co., resign- 
ing that position to enter the volunteer army. 
In September of 1891, he was married to Miss 
Carrie E. Sutherland. They have one child, 
a daughter. 



Fred. D. Ballou, Captain of Co. A. 

Captain Ballou was born at Peru, Indiana, 
November 24, 1868, moved to Logansport, Indi- 
ana, with his parents in 1872, to Indianapolis in 
1874, and the following year again to Logans- 
port. He attended the public schools of Lo- 
gansport and Indianapolis until he was sixteen 
years of age, when he quit to seek employment, 
thus spending his youth and earlier years of 
manhood in Logansport. In 1889 he removed 
to Marion, Indiana, where his parents had pre- 
ceded him. In 1892 Captain Ballou was em- 
ployed by the treasurer of the Marion Branch of 
the National Military Home for disabled 
volunteer soldiers, Avas considered a valued as- 
sistant to the clerical force of the institution, and 



IN THE Spanish-American W ar. 131 

was still in the treasurer's employ when the 
Spanish-American war was declared. 

Captain Ballon's father, J. Y. Ballon, although 
crippled in his youth, oro;auized a company of 
infantry in 1861, and was commissioned first 
lieutenant, but not beino; able to endure the fa- 




FRED. D. BALLOU, Captain. 

tigue of an infantryman, he was detailed recruit- 
ing officer. He afterward assisted in organizing 
a troop of cavalry, was commissioned first lieu- 
tenant, afterward captain, and serving until 
1865. 

The captain Avas a member of the famous Lo- 
gansport Greys for two years, and in March of 
1892, a member of Co. A, Fourth regiment In- 
diana Legion, being appointed corporal at the 



132 History of the 160th. I V. I. 

organization, was soon after promoted to ser- 
geant, tlien to first sergeant. In April, of 1893, 
he was commissioned second lientenant, and on 
December 11, 1895, captain of Co. A, Fonrtli 
Infantry Indiana National Guard, serving in 
that capacity until the late war. 

In August of 1893, Captain Ballon was mar- 
ried to Miss Gertrude Crumrine, ot Marion, In- 
diana. In June of 1898, Mrs. Ballon joined her 
husband at Chickamanga Park, and with him 
shared camp life until Angnst, when the regi- 
ment was under orders to sail for Porto Rico, 
when she returned home, rejoining him at Lex- 
ington. Ky., in October, accompanied him to 
Columbus, Georgia, returning home in January 
of 1899, wlien the regiment sailed for Cuba. 



John M. Lenhart, Captain of Co. B. 

Captain John M. Lenhart is the son of a 
farmer, born in Mercer county, Ohio, April 14, 
1866, reared on the farm and educated in the 
common school, and remaining on the farm 
until he had reached his eighteenth year, when 
he went to Adams county, Indiana. Here he 
engaged in saw milling for two years, again re- 
turning to Ohio where he was employed by the 
Celina Lumber Co. Again he removed to Indi- 
ana, entering the employ of the Adams County 
Lumber Co., remaining with that company until 



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133 



April 26, 1898, resigning to enter the volunteer 
army. 

On October 16, 1894, he was married to Miss 
Myrtle Steele. His family consists of his wife 
and two children. Captain Lenhart's military 
training extends through seven years as a mem- 
ber of the State Guard and the Indiana National 
Guard, serving in all the ranks, from [trivate to 
and including Captain. He saw active service 




JOHN M. LENHART, Captain. 

during the Hammond strike in 1894. On May 
12. 1898, he was commissioned Captain in the 
volunteer army. As an officer he has served 
honestly and faithfully, ever watchful and eager 
to do his duty. In civil life he is noted for his 
integrit}" and strict application to business. 



134 History of the IOOtii I. Y. I. 

Kenneth M. Burr, Captain of Co. L. 

Kenneth M. Burr was educated in Peekskill, 
1^. Y., Military Academy. Previous to his mil- 
itary education, he attended the Anderson High 
School and was a student in the DePauw Uni- 
versity. Captain Burr was l)orn in Anderson, 
Indiana, in 1872, where he first applied his mili- 
tary education b_y organizing a company of In- 
fantry in December, 1891. This company was 




KENNETH M. BURR, Captain. 

mustered into the State service by Colonel Gun- 
der and assigned to the Second Regiment as Co. 
C, Captain Burr receiving the commission of 
First Lieutenant, serving as such until elected 
Captain in April, 1893. His command saw 
twenty days of active service during the coal 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 135 

strikes of 1894. He resigned this captaincy 
October 1, 1896, hut at the commencement of 
the recent war organized Co. L, and on April 
28, was elected (Japtain, his command being 
assigned to the Fourth Infantry I. N. G. 



H. C. Brown, Captain of Co. E. 

Captain 11. C. Brown entered the volunteer 
service as a first sergeant, bat in less than ten 
months was promoted to captain, thus, perhaps, 




H. C. BROWN, Captain. 

making the best record as to promotion of any 
officer in the volunteer army of the late war. 
He was born in Wauseon, Ohio, July 27, 1871, and 



136 History of the IGOtii I. V. I. 

ill the autumn of 1873, removed with his parents 
to Colorado, where he Avas educated in the 
Buena Yista city schools, and graduated from 
its high school. In 1886, he went to Wyoming 
and was employed in the herding of cattle until 
1893. Leaving AVyoming in 1893, he went to 
Bluffton, Indiana, where he engaged in oil tank 
hnilding until the breaking out of the Spanish- 
American war. 

While in Wyoming, Captain Brown joined 
Co. F, First Infantr}', Wyoming National 
Guard in January of 1889, serving as trumpeter 
untd 1893. In 1894 he became a member of Co. 
E, Fourth Infantry, Indiana National Guard, 
and served at the Hammond riots as duty ser- 
geant. On April 26, 1898, he enrolled as a vol- 
unteer and was mustered into the Federal service 
as first sergeant, elected captain February 2, 
1899, commissioned February 22, the date of the 
commission being February 1, 1899. 



Robert M. Van Buskirk, Captain of Co I. 

Captain Kobert M. Van Buskii-k was reared on 
the farm in Tipton county, Indiana, where he 
was born July 27, 1862. He received a common 
school education, and when he was twenty years 
old he attended two terms at the Danville, Indi- 
ana, Normal College. From this college he re- 
turned to the farm, afterward teaching school for 
seven terms, four of which were taught near 
Ft. Scott, Kansas, where he resided two years. 



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137 



On returning to Indiana he continued to teach 
school, afterward serving two years as city en- 
gineer of Tipton. At the breaking out of the 
Spanish-American war he assisted in organizing 
Co. I, I. X. G., which was mustered into the 
Fourth Infantry. Captain Van Buskirk was 




ROBERT M. VAN BUSKIRK, Captain. 

commissioned iirst lieutenant. He served as first 
lieutenant in the U. S. service until ]!^ovember 
20, 1898, when he was commissioned captain. 

On March 10, 1886, Captain Van Buskirk was 
married to Miss Emma McCullough. He is the 
father of three sons, the oldest having been born 
on the anniversary of his father's birthday. He 
is a staunch Republican, a member of the Ma- 
sonic order, Knights of Pythias, and the Knights 
of Maccabees. 



138 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Thomas Marks, Captain of Co. C. 

Captain Marks was born at La Fayette, Indi- 
ana, February 8, 1876; educated in the La Fayette 
city schools, graduating from the high school, 




THOMAS MARKS, Captain. 

then entering Purdue LTniversity and graduating 
in 1876 with the Degree of B. M. E. He was a 
student in the military department of the Pur- 
due University for two years, second lieutenant 
of Co. C, Fourth Infantrj^ Indiana National 
Guard, and on May 12, 1896, commissioned cap- 
tain. Captain Marks was commissioned in the 
Federal service on May 12, 1898. During the 
most of his term of service he was detailed as 
Judge Advocate of the general court martial. 



IX THE Spanish-American War. 139 

Joseph R. Harrison, Captain of Co. G. 

Joseph R. Harrison, captain of Co. G, and the 
senior captain in the Fonrth Infantry Indiana 
National Guard, was born in ]Srohle county, In- 
diana, on May 28, 1862. His father is of 
Scotch-Irish, and his mother of English parent- 




JOSEPH K HARRISON, Captain. 

age. He was educated in the public schools of 
Churubusco, Indiana, and at the age of fourteen 
taught successfully his first term of school. At 
the age of seventeen he entered the clerk's ofiice 
of the Whitley county Circuit court as deputy, 
serving until 1888 when he was ofi'ered, and ac- 
cepted the position of first assistant clerk of the 
United States court of the Fourth district of 
New Mexico. In 1890 he resigned the position, 



140 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

returned to Columbia City, his present home, en- 
tered the office of Collins & Adams, and, under 
their direction, took a course in law. After ex- 
amination he was admitted to the bar but never 
practiced. During the seven years just previous 
to his enlistment in the army, conducted a book, 
stationery and general store at his home. During 
the captain's term of service in the army the 
business was conducted b}' his wife. 

Captain Harrison was married on February 
10, 1881, to Jennie E., daughter of Colonel 
George W. Stough, of the 88th Indiana Volun- 
teer Infantry, who fell at Chickamauga in 1868. 
Four children bless this union, all of which are 
living. The captain was a member of the Col- 
umbia City Board of Education for a number of 
years; is a Scotish Rite Mason, a Knight Tem- 
l>lar, and a Knight of Pythias. 

Captain Harrison was assistant adjutant gen- 
eral of the Third brigade. First division, First 
army corps, at the camp at the Weil farm in Ken- 
tucky, and was complimented highly on the 
manner in which he discharged his duties. He 
was in command of the first battalion for three 
months during the sickness of Major Harter. 

He is an expert accountant, a fine penman, 
and worthy of the confidence and esteem re- 
posed in liim. 



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141 



Eugene Buehler, Lieutenant and Assistant 
Sur§:eon. 

Eugene Buehler, ]M. 1)., was born in Phila- 
delphia, Penn., June 28, 1872. His education 
began in the Wyoming Grammar School from 
wliich he graduated. He then chose the medi- 




EUGENE BUEULER, Lieutenant and Assistant 
Surgeon. 

cal profession and attended the Chicago Ophthal- 
mic College and Hospital, graduating with 
honors February 3, 1895. Enteriug the Central 
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianap- 
olis, Indiana, he graduated with the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine. 

In 1894, he joined the Indiana ISTational 
Guard, serving on the staif of the Chief Medical 



142 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

Officer, Colonel W. M. Wright, until May 4, 
1898, when he received his commission as 
Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon of the 160th 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry. From June 22 to 
December 27 of the same year, Lieutenant 
JBuehler acted as Surgeon of the regiment. 



Henry F. McFeely, First Lieutenant and 
Regimental Adjutant. 

Lieutenant Henry F. McFeely was born at 
Minneapolis, Minn., November 26, 1873, when 
yet a child his parents removed with him to 
Union City, Indiana, where they resided but a 
few years when they removed to Marion, Indi- 
ana, their present home. He was educated in 
the Marion Cit}'' Schools, graduating from the 
High school in 1891, and from August, 1893, to 
May, 1894, was Recorder for the Government 
Surve}^ of the Mississippi River by the Missis- 
sippi River Commission. 

Lieutenant McFeely enlisted in Co. A, Fourth 
Regiment, Indiana Legion, in June of 1891, 
served as a private and corporal until 1895, when 
he was appointed Regimental Color Sergeant of 
the Fourth Infantry, Indiana ISTational Guard, 
in the summer of 1896, was made Sergeant 
Major, and in N^ovember of 1896, commissioned 
First Lieutejiaut and Regimental Adjutant. On 
May 12, 1898, he was commissioned First Lieu- 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 143 

tenant in the Volunteer army and assigned Reg- 
imental Adjutant of the 160th Indiana Volun- 
teer Infantry, 



William L. Hughes, Second Lieutenant of Co. H. 

Lieutenant Huo-hes was born in Muskingum 
county, Ohio, October 14, 1862, moved from 
Ohio in 1866, to Etna Green, Indiana, and re- 
moving from there to Warsaw in 1875. He was 
educated in the Warsaw city schools. He be- 
came a painter and previous to entering the 
army devoted his entire time to that occupation. 
He was married to Miss Lillie B. Vauator on 
May 30, 1888. They have a family of six chil- 
dren, two boys and four girls. 

Lieutenant Hughes joined Co. E, First Regi- 
ment, Indiana Legion, in March of 1887, serving 
three years as private, three years a Quarter- 
Master-Sergeant, and two years as Sergeant- 
Major, and in 1896 was commissioned a Second 
Lieutenant in the Indiana National Guard. 

He served as a Duty Sergeant at the Roby 
riots and as Sergeant-Major at the Hammond 
riots. Lieutenant Hughes was recruiting officer 
for the First Battalion in June of 1898. 

On August 15, 1898, he w^as taken to the 
General Hospital at Ft. Monroe, Va., as a 
typhoid fever patient, remaining there until 
September 13, when he was granted leave of 



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History of the 160th I. V. I. 



absence and was away from his company in all, 
seventy-one days. He is a member of the I. O. 
R. M. of Warsaw. 



Fred. L. Beshore, First Lieutenant and Battalion 
Adjutant. 

Fred. L. Beshore began his military career 
when but fifteen years of age as a private in Co. 
A, Fourth Infantry Indiana National Guards in 




FRED. L. BESHORE, First Lieut. AND Batt'n Ad.i't. 

1888. Two years later he was appointed cor- 
poral, but was almost immediately elected first 
lieutenant, holding that commission until 1892, 
when he was commissioned captain. He re- 
ceived an honorable discharge at the expiration 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 145 

of this commission. When mustered into the 
Federal service, he was commissioned first lieu- 
tenant and appointed Adjutant of the Third 
Battalion. 

Adjutant Beshorc's birthplace is Marion, Ind., 
Jan. 18, 1873, being the date of his birth. He 
received his education in the public schools, 
afterwards engaging in the grocery business in 
his native city. 



Levi L. Marts, First Lieutenant and Battalion 
Adjutant. 

Levi L. Marts, a veteran of two wars, the 
great Civil War and the Spanish- American War, 
was born in Wayne County, Ohio, March 11, 
1836, educated in the common schools, in 1849 
removed to Adams county, Indiana, where he 
settled in the woods and cleared a farm. In 1856 
he removed to Wells County, Ind., engaged in 
plastering two years, then entered a general 
store as clerk, resigning to enter the Volunteer 
Army in 1861. 

Lieut. Marts enlisted on April 21, 1861, as 
musician, soon after promoted to principal mu- 
sician. In 1863 he re-enlisted as a veteran and 
was appointed commissary sergeant, then quar- 
termaster sergeant, afterwards commissioned 
first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of 
the Thirty-fourth Indiana A^olunteer Infantry. 



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History op the 160th I. Y. I. 



During his service he participated in the 
battle of Island ^o. 10, of Fort Pillow, l^ew 
Madrid, Miss., Kuddlespont, Arkansas Post, Du 
Volts Bluff, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Raymond, 
Jackson, Miss., Champion Hill, Black River and 
Vicksburg, where the army lay sieged forty-six 




LEVI L. MARTS, First Lieut, and Batt"n Ad.j't. 

days. He also engaged in the last battle of the 
war, which was fought on the old Palo Alto 
battleground on May 13th, 1865, after which the 
army went into camp at Brownville, Texas. 
From the American side he saw the historic 
battle between the French army, commanded by 
General Mejiahh, and the Mexican army, by 
General Cortina, the Mexicans beino: routed, — 
this to the disappointment of the Americans. 



IN THE Spanish-American AVar. 147 

His service ending February 2, 1866, he re- 
turned to BlufFtoii, Ind., engaged in general 
merchandise in partnership with his former 
employer. Eemoving to Wayne County, Ohio, 
he entered the hardware trade, again returning 
to Bluffton, Ind., in 1879 to engage in the dry 
goods trade until 1884, when he established a 
boot and shoe trade, and in 1889 sold out to 
enter the employ of J. W. Tribolet, clothier, 
retaining that position until the declaration of 
the late war. 

Lieutenant Marts was quartermaster sergeant 
of the Fourth Regiment Indiana Legion in 1891, 
in 1892 was promoted to First Lieutenant and 
Adjutant of the Second Battalion. When the 
Indiana Legion was transferred to the I. N. G. 
he retained his rank and was afterward assigned 
to the First Battalion. J^ot content with the 
honors of many battles, he enrolled again, and 
on May 12th, 1898, was mustered in as First 
Lieutenant and Adjutant of the First Battalion. 

He was married to Miss Martha S. Clark on 
Sept. 6th, 1859. They have a family of four 
daughters. 

He is a member of the Masonic Order, a 
Knight of Honor and a member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He was a delegate to 
G. A. R. isTational Encampment and an aid on 
the staff of John G. B. Adams, Commander-in- 
Chief. 



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Charles S. Maltby, First Lieutenant and Battalion 
Adjutant. 

Charles S. Maltby, lirst lieutenant and battalion 
adjutant, spent his boyhood in Aurora, Indiana, 
where he was born September 7, 1874. He be- 
gan his education in the cit}' schools, but on 
completing his second year in the high school, 




CHARLES S. MALTBY, First Lieutenant and Battalion 
Adjutant. 

entered Morris Hill college, where he studied for 
four years. Two years more were spent in the 
University of Indiana, graduating in 1897, with 
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. From 1897 to 
the time of his enlistment, he engaged in the 
manufacture of edged tools. On JVIay 15, 1898, 
he wedded Miss Lela Barnett, a niece of Colonel 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 149 

Barnett, of the 159th Indiana Volunteer In- 
fantry. Adjutant Maltby's first experience as a 
soldier was that of a private in the Indiana Na- 
tional Guard. During three years of service he 
attended the Fort AVayne and Terre Haute en- 
campments, and in December, 1897, was ap- 
pointed a battalion adjutant in the Fourth In- 
fantry Indiana Xational Guard. He was com- 
missioned a first lieutenant in the volunteer 
army and assigned adjutant of the second bat- 
talion of the liiOth Indiana Volunteer Infantrv. 



E. G. Hinkley, First Lieutenant Co. H. 

Lieutenant E. G. Hinkley was born at Sturgis, 
Michigan, June 10, 1874; in 1877 removed with 
his parents to Albion, Micliigan ; in 1881 to St. 
Louis, Missouri, and later to Fort AVayne, Indi- 
ana. He was educated in the public schools of 
that cit}'. In 1890 he removed to Warsaw, In- 
diana, where he was employed by the G. B. 
Lesh Manufacturing Co., until the outbreak of 
the late war. 

Lieutenant Hinkley joined Co. H, Fourth Reg- 
iment Indiana Legion in 1892, served in the 
Roby and Hammond riots as corporal, in 1895 at 
Indianapolis as sergeant; and in May of 1897, 
was commissioned first lieutenant of Co. H, 
Fourth Infantry Indiana Xational Guard. 

Lieutenant Hinkley served as provost marshal 
in Columbus, Ga., was relieved and detailed as 



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History of the 160th L V. I, 



quarter-master of the first brigade hospital. He 
reported to his company January 31, 1899. 
While in Camp Mount he received a twenty- 
four hours leave of absence on May 7, 1898, and 
was married to Miss Bertha Houljle, of Fort 




E. G. HINKLEY, First Lieutenant. 

Wayne, Indiana. He is a member of the Im- 
proved Order of Red Men and of the Knights of 
Maccabees. His father was a member of troop 
M, Kew York volunteer cavalry, and served 
under Kilpatrick in the Civil war. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 151 

Boston L. Vail, First Lieutenant of Co. A. 

Lieutenant Boston L. Vail lirst served as a 
private in the State Guards, enlisting at Port- 
land, Indiana, in 1891, afterward being trans- 
ferred to the Marion Company. After two 




BOSTON L. VAIL, First Lieutenant. 

years' service as a private, he was promoted to 
Corporal, from Corporal to Sergeant, and in the 
spring of 1896 elected Second Lieutenant. On 
March 24, 1897, he was commissioned First 
Lieutenant with which rank he was mustered 
into the Volunteer army. 



152 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

When the order was issued in June of 1898, 
to recruit the companies in the service to a 
maximum, Lieutenant Vail was detailed muster- 
ing officer for the Second Battalion, He served 
on the General Court Martial held at Fort San 
Severino, Matanzas, Cuba. Lieutenant Vail 
was born June 29, 1875, in Huntington county, 
Indiana, attended the public schools and gradu- 
ated from the Portland High School in 1892. 
He was married in 1896 to Miss Theresca 
Oswald, of Delphi, Indiana. At the time of his 
enlistment in the army, he was engaged in the 
confectionery trade at Marion, Indiana. 



Frank M. Beshore, Second Lieutenant of Co, A, 

Frank ]SL Beshore began his military training 
in 1891, at the age of sixteen years as a private 
in the Indiana K'ational Guard. After two 
years service as a private, he was promoted to 
Corporal, and soon after to Sergeant, serving as 
First Sergeant until elected Second Lieutenant, 
April 14, 1897. He held this commission until 
mustered into the Federal service with the same 
rank. Lieutenant Beshore was born in Marion, 
Indiana, May 6, 1875. His education is that of 
a common school course. Previous to his en- 
listment he was engaged in the grocery business 
in Marion. 



IX THE Spanish-Americax War. 153 

Geor§:e Knee, First Lieutenant of Co. I. 

Lieutenant Knee was born in LaFayette, In- 
diana, April 11, 1876, living there until he was 
eighteen years of age. During that time he at- 
tended the public, grammar and high schools. 




CiEORGE KNEE, First Lieutenant. 

He afterward removed to Tipton, Indiana, where 
he was employed by the L. E. & AV. R. R. Co., 
but resigned his position with that compau}' to 
volunteer. He enrolled on the 23rd day of 
April, 1898, as a volunteer and member of Co. I, 
and was elected second lieutenant. On Decem- 
ber 16, 1898, he received a promotion to first 
lieutenant to fill a vacancy. 



154 History of the 1(30th I. V. I. 

R. Floyd Wilson, First Lieutenant of Co. F. 

Lieutenant Wilson enlisted in Co. F, Fourtli 
Indiana National Guard, January 20, 1898, as a 
private, and on May 8, of tlie same year, was 
commissioned first lieutenant. 




R. FLOYD WILSON, First Lieutenant. 

Lieutenant Wilson was born at Ossian, Indi- 
ana, January 2, 1877, reared on the farm, and 
educated in the Ossian city schools, graduating 
from the high school in 1893. After graduation 
he taught school three years, then attended col- 
lege at Ada, Ohio, two years. He was a student 
of the classics and a cadet under Captain John 
Morgan, U. S. army. At the outbreak of the 
Spanish- Araei'ican war he was engaged in teach- 
ing, resigning to enter the arm}'. 



IN THE Spani.sh-American War. 155 

Lester A. Bergfan, First Lieutenant of Co. E. 

Lester A. Bergau began bis military career in 
1895, as a pri\^ate in Co. E, Fourtb Infantry, In- 
diana National Guard. After be had served 
eighteen months the comi)any disbanded, reor- 




LESTER A. BERGAN, First Lieutenant. 

ganizing in 1897, when be again enlisted as a 
private, but was immediately appointed ser- 
geant. He entered the volunteer army with his 
company with the rank of sergeant, was com- 
missioned second lieutenant on January 5, 1899, 
and was promoted to first lieutenant February 
22, 1899, his commission dating January 28, 
1899. 



156 History of the 160th I. Y, I. 

Le Roy Fitch Second Lieutenant Co. M. 

Leiioy Fiteb was born at Logansport, Indiana. 
August 10,1870; he attended the Logansport 
eit_v school until he was thirteen years old, when 




LE ROY PITCH, Second Lieutenant. 

he removed with his parents to Florida, where 
they remained four years, returning to Indiana 
where his father died. 

He chose plumbing as his avocation but aban- 
doned it to enter the mail service. He was em- 
ployed by the City Electric Light Co., resigning 
to enter the volunteer army. He assisted in or- 
ganizing Co. M, and was chosen second lieuten- 
ant. 

Lieutenant Fitch's father served four years 
in tlio Civil war and was promoted to captain in 
the 46th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 157 

Charles E. Barnhart, First Lieutenant of Co. B. 

First Lieutenant of Co. B, Charles E. Barn- 
liart liegan liis military career as a priv^ate in the 
State Guards of Indiana; his first active service 
was during the Roby riots in 1894. lie was 




CHARLES E. BARNHART, FlK^^T Lieutenant. 

promoted corporal in 1895, but held the rank of 
first sergeant at the outbreak of the Spanish- 
American war; his ability as an officer was then 
recognized by the company electing him second 
lieutenant; he entered the Federal service as a 
second lieutenant, serving with this rank until 
November 12, 1898, when he was promoted to 
first lieutenant, his commission dating from Au- 
gust 10, 1898. 

Lieutenant Barnhart was born in Decatur, 



158 History of the IGOth I. Y. I. 

Indiana, Xovember 27, 1873 ; his education was 
acquired in the schools of his own city, he grad- 
uating from its high school in 1893. 



John B. Collins, First Lieutenant of Co. L. 

Lieutenant John B. Collins was born in An- 
derson, Indiana, on Christmas clay, 1869, and 
educated in the Anderson city schools. Lieuten- 
ant ColUns was married to Miss I^ettie Adams, 
of Anderson, on September 20, 1898. From 
December, 1891, dates Lieutenant Collin's mili- 
tary training, he serving six years in the Indi- 
ana National Guard, three years as a private and 
three as sergeant. On April 26, 1898, he again 
enrolled, was elected and commissioned lirst 
lieutenant of Co. L. 



James T. Mills, Second Lieutenant of Co D. 

Lieutenant James T. Mills was born atXobles- 
ville, Indiana, July 28, 1873, and educated in the 
city schools of Ivokomo, Indiana. In February 
of 1896, he entered the Indiana National Guard 
with the rank of corporal, and was afterward 
promoted to sergeant. On May 28, 1898, he was 
mustered into the volunteer army as first duty 
sergeant, and in June of the same year was de- 
tailed to recruit Co. D. He was elected second 
Heutenant on February, 3, 1899, and commis- 
sioned. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 159 

Leonard F. Wood, First Lieutenant of Co. K. 

Leonard F. Wood was born at Clinton, Wis- 
consin, March 8, 1876 ; in 1880 removed to 
Rockford, Illinois, where he was educated in the 
public schools. He engaged with his father in 
contracting and building until December 6, 1896. 




LEO>:aRD F. wood, first Lieutenant. 

This time he removed to Huntington, Indiana, 
to follow railroading; he was there a little more 
than a year when he assisted in oro-anizins; Co. 
K, and was elected first lieutenant, which was 
accepted and assigned to the Fourth Infantry 
Indiana ISTational Guard, April 21, 1898. 

Lieutenant Wood organized a camp of the 
■Sons of Veterans in Huntington, of which he 
Avas elected captain. 



160 History of the 160th I. V, I. 

Previous to removing to Huntington he served 
three years in the Rockford Rifles, Co. K, Third 
Infantry Illinois Xational Guard, and as first 
lieutenant in the Sons of A^eterans. He is an 
earnest and faithful member of the Jr. 0. U. 
A. M. 



D. S. Linvill, First Lieutenant of Co. G. 

David Swan Linvill, M. D., was born on May 
21, 1862, at Columbia City, Indiana. At an 
earl}' age and until 1887, he attended the Col- 
umbia City schools, then taking a course in the 
Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. Dur- 
ing his vacations he taught school or otherwise 
improved his time. 

Lieutenant Linvill's father being a prominent 
surgeon it was not strange that the Lieutenant 
was fascinated in the study of medicine in his 
youth. At the age of fifteen he began the study 
of his chosen profession under the direction of 
his father and Dr. A. C. Mitten, and with the 
celebrated Scotch physician, Dr. Wm. Brodie, 
of Detroit, Mich., as preceptor. 

Entering tlie Detroit College of Medicine, he 
graduated in 1886, after having been a student 
four years. His room-mate, Dr. John H. Moore, 
took the first prize with an average of 90 ^l, per 
cent., Andrew H. Biddle, Major and Surgeon of 
the 31st Michigan Volunteer Infantry, second 
prize with an average of 90 j" per cent., and the 



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161 



Lieutenant took third prize with an average of 
90 Js'o per cent. 

After graduating- he lived in Columbia City 
and soon after was appointed R. R. Surgeon of 
the Wabash and Pennsvlvania lines. He is a 




D. S. LINVILL, F'iKST Lieutenant. 

member of the Board of Pension Examiners, ob- 
taining a leave of absence from those appoint- 
ments to enter the army. 

In 1895, Dr. Linvill was commissioned First 
Lieutenant of Co. G, Fourth Infantry, I. N. G. 
In the Federal service he served on the staflt of 
Brig. Gen. Wiley as inspector of small arms 
l)ractice, and afterward on the staft" of Brig. 
Gen. Sanger, as inspector of small arms practice 
for the District of Matanzas. 



162 History of the 1(30tii I. V. I. 

At the age of twenty-five, Lieutenant Linvill 
was married to Miss Lorina Hemmick who died 
a few years after marriage, her daughter of 
eighteen months dying a few months before. 
He afterward married Maude Thompson Jelinke. 
During the time of the Lieutenant's service in 
the United States, Mrs. Linvill remained with 
her husband in camp. She will be kindly re- 
membered for her kindness to the sick in the 
hospital and camp. Dr. Linvill is a member of 
a number of medical societies, the principal ones 
being the National Association of K. R. Sur- 
geons, Tri-County Society, State Medical Society 
and the American Medical Society. 



Arthur Sayre, Second Lieutenant of Co. D. 

Arthur Sayre, Second Lieutenant of Co. D, 
was born in Wabash, Indiana, November 24, 
1869. His eduction was acquired in the school 
of that city. Ho has a wife and one child. 
His military career began as a private in Co. D, 
Fourth Infantry I. ^^. G. He served but two 
years as such, when he was promoted to First 
Sergeant, nine months were spent as First 
Sergeant, then he was elected Second Lieuten- 
ant. He was mustered into the Federal service 
retaining his rank until January 31, 1899. He 
was discharged on account of })hysical disability. 



IN THE Spanish- American W^ar. 163 

William C. Dunn, First Lieutenant of Co. M. 

Lieutenant William C. Dunn, was boni in 
Logaiisport, Indiana, August 6, 1873, and the 
foundation of his early education was had in the 
St. Vincent De Pauls and St. Josephs parochial 




WILLIAM C. DUNN, First Lieutenant. 

schools of Logansport, later on graduating from 
Hall's College of Logansport. Accepting a 
position with the Standard Oil Co., which he 
gave up to accept the cashiership of the Logan- 
sport Natural Gas Co., which position he gave 
up to enter the army. He was elected First 
Lieutenant of Co. M, Fourth Indiana, at Indi- 
anapolis, May 6, 1898, and one week later May 
12, 1898, was commissioned First Lieutenant of 
Co. M, 160th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 



164 History of the 160th I, Y. I. 

Arthur D. Reed, First Lieutenant of Co. D. 

Lieutenant Reed began his experience as a 
soldier in ]S'oveniber of 1893 as First Sergeant, 
serving in this rank nearly three years, when he 
was elected Second Lieutenant. His first active 




ARTHUR D. REED, First Lieutenant. 

service in the Indiana N'ational Guard was at 
Roby riots in 1893, also serving at Hammond in 
1894. In 1897 he was commissioned First 
Lieutenant of Co. D, Fourth Infantry, Indiana 
National Guard. 

Lieutenant Heed was born, January 14, 1866, 
at Lao-ro, Indiana, and received his education in 



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165 



the public school. He was married on ]S"ovem- 
ber 22, 1889, and is the father of one child. 
Learning the trade of harness making he en- 
gaged in that occupation during the fourteen or 
lifteen years just previous to his enlistment in 
the Volunteer army. 



Charles A. Hubbard, Second Lieutenant of Co. C. 

Lieutenant Charles A. Hubbard was born in 
Delphi, Indiana, July 2,1875, and in 1878 re- 




CHARLES A. HUBBARD, Second Lieutenant.; S"^.^ 

moved with his parents to Lafayette, Indiana, 
where he commenced his education in the city 
schools. For a time he Avas employed by the 



166 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Lafayette Lumber Co., resigning to enter the 
Union Business College, from which he gradu- 
ated in 1894. He was re-employed by the same 
company until the outbreak of the late war. 
While in camp at Camp Conrad, he was married 
to Miss Mamie T. McGuire. of Hatchechubbee, 
Alabama, on December 7, 1898. In 1895 Lieu- 
tenant Hubbard enlisted as a private in Co. C, 
Fourth Inft., Indiana National Guard, serving 
as such one year, then receiving a promotion to 
corporal, and afterward to first sergeant. Be- 
fore he had served two years of his term of en- 
listment he was elected and commissioned second 
lieutenant of Co. C. 



Fred. J. Tangfcmann, Second Lieutenant of Co. E 

Lieutenant Fred. J. Tangemann was born at 
Coldwater, Ohio, August 12, 1869 ; was reared 
on the farm, and received a common school edu- 
cation. At the age of sixteen he went to Bluff- 
ton, where he resided until the outbreak of the 
late war. He joined the Indiana State Militia at 
Bluifton, Ind. in 1890 as a private, serving as such 
but two or three weeks when promoted to cor- 
poral, subsequently serving in every office, in- 
cluding that of first lieutenant, resigning at the 
end of two years of service. At the outbreak of 
the Spanish-American war he rejoined the com- 
pany and was promoted corporal, and promoted 



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167 



to sergeant while on the way to Culja. He was 
then acting commissary-sergeant of the first bat- 
talion, and was connected with the commissary 
department nntil February 7, 1899, when he was 




FRED. J. TANGEMANN, Second Lieutknant. 

elected second lieutenant, his commission dating 
February 1. Immediately after he was commis- 
sioned Lieutenant Tangemann was appointed 
regimental commissary ofiicer. 



Geor§:e C. Sauser, Second Lieutenant Co. L. 

On July 27, 187-i, George C. Sauser was born 
in the city of Anderson, Indiana. He was 
reared in that city, and received his education m 



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History of the 160th I. V. I. 



its schools. In 1893 he was married to Miss 
Elizabeth Keckler. He began his military life as 
many other officers, by joining the State Guard 
as a private in 1892. He was soon advanced to 
a Corpoi'al, but the company disbanded, thus 




GEORGE C SAUSER, Second Lieutenant 

ending his military service until April, 1898, 
whan he joined Co. L, Fourth Infantry, Indiana 
National Guard, as a private. He was chosen by 
the company to be its second lieutenant, and 
was mustered into the Federal service as such. 



Richard D. Myers, Second Lieutenant of Co. B. 

Richard D. Myers is well fitted to perform the 
duties of his rank. Enlisting as a [trivate in the 



IX THE Spanish-American War. 



169 



State Guard in 1893, he served as Corporal dur- 
ing the Hammond strike, was commissioned 
First Lieutenant of Co. B, Fourth Infantry, In- 
diana Xational Guard in 1895, but on account 
of business occupying his time he resigned his 
lieutenancy the same spring. On April 23, 1898, 
he again enlisted in the Indiana Xational Guard 




KICHARD D. MYERS, Second Lieutenant. 

as a private, but was immediately appointed first 
sergeant. Enlisting with his company as first 
sergeant, he performed the duties of that office 
until Xovember 12, 1898, when he was promoted 
to second lieutenant, his commission dating from 
August 10, 1898. 

Lieutenant Myers was born near Decatur, In- 
diana, July 24, 1875. His youth was spent on 



170 History of the KjOtii I. Y. I. 

the farm. His education was obtained in the 
Decatur schools, graduating from the high school 
in 1895. After graduating he spent a yenr on 
farm, afterward taking a course in the Champion 
Undertaking college. On finishing the course of 
study he graduated, then entered the employ of 
Auten & Gay as undertaker and embalmer, 
which position he resigned April 23, 1898, to 
enlist in the volunteer army. 



Ransom Allen, First Lieutenant and Regfimental 
Quartermaster. 

This is the record of a man who has twice put 
aside his personal pursuits to respond to his na- 
tion's call. This can he written of but a few 
men. It is said that one need offer his services 
to his country but once, then it is doubly in- 
debted to him who performs the service twice, 
and when that one had been on the battle field, 
heard the shrieking shot and shell, and pierced 
by the leaden balls. Fine words can not em- 
bellish such record, the mere statement of the 
events make it eloquent. 

Ransom Allen was born in Trumbull count}^ 
Ohio, March 15, 1842. When he was five years 
ofageliis parents removed with liim to Wells 
county, Indiana, wdiere he was reared, and as he 
grew older in years, assisted liis fatber in the 
farm duties and in winter attended the district 
school. 



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171 



His youthful days were without event until 
the outbreak of that great fraternal strife when 
on August 5, 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 13th 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry. His captain was 
Captain Hurd, afterward Colonel Ilurd, and 
Second Lieutenant, Major-General Henry Law- 




RANSOM ALLEN, First Lieutenant and Regimental 

QUARTERMASTEK. 

ton, a heru of Santiago, and the idol of the 
soldiers lighting with him in the Philippines. 

Lieutenant Allen served during the entire 
war, re-enlisting in the Veteran service, Janu- 
ary 6, 186-1, and participated in the battle ol: 
Shiloh, Claysville, La Verge, Stone River, 
Chickamauga, Wilson's Creek, Pulaski, Triune, 
Middleton, Liberty Gap, Tullahoma, Chatta- 
nooo:a, Lookout Mountain, Mission liidge, 



172 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

Franklin and iN^asiiville, besides many skirm- 
ishes. He was with Sherman on his Atlanta 
campaign of one hundred and twenty days of 
constant skirmishing and fighting, taking part 
in every battle in which his regiment was en- 
gaged during his four years and four months 
service. At the battle of Shiloh, April 7, 1862, 
he was wounded in the right hand, and in the 
right side of the face, the missile penetrating 
the ilesh to the bone, while in the battle of 
Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. He relates 
the following thrilling incidents: "While on 
the Atlanta campaign, in June of 1864, my 
comrade, Robert Swan was wounded while his 
arm was resting on my shoulder, the ball pass- 
ing entirely through the body, penetrating the 
left lung. On the same campaign, July 4, 1864, 
another comrade, Joseph Vosher, was shot and 
instantly killed while lying on the ground by 
my side," January, February and March were 
spent on a march through the mountains of 
East Tennessee, From there he was sent 
to Goliad, Texas, where he was discharged InTov. 
24, 1865, and reached his home on Dec, 17, 1865. 
He was married on February 15, 1866, to Miss 
Elizabeth Ellen Todd, who was born December 
22, 1847, the fifth daughter of Jacob and Jane 
(Thomas) Todd, The following children have 
been born to them : Victor Uriah, (deceased) 
Lula J., AVealtliy Adelle and Don Stanley H, 
Stanley was First Sergeant of Co, F, 160th 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 173 

Lieuteuaut Alleu is a Republican and takes 
an active interest in his party. He was post- 
master at Ossian from 1879-1881, and was elected 
township trustee in 1894 to serve until 1899, but 
resigned in May, 1898, to accept a commission 
as First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 
160th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. 

He is a member of the Ossian Lodge, Xo. 297, 
F. and A. M., and also ot William Swaim 
Post No. 169, G. A. R. He is an earnest, ener- 
getic business man, and enterprising citizen, 
ever willing and ready to aid that which tends 
to public good. 



Orison P. Lee, A. M., Captain of Co K. 

Orison P. Lee was born near Shelbyville, Ind., 
July 80, 1860. He was reared on the farm and 
began his education in the public schools, after- 
ward attending the Central Xormal College at 
Danville, Indiana, and graduating from the 
Commercial and Xormal courses. Upon gradu- 
ating from the Kansas College, completing the 
Scientific and Classical courses, he received the 
degree of A. B., and was afterward honored by 
having conferred upon him the degree of A, M. 
He is also a graduate of the National School of 
Oratory and Elocution with the degree of B. 0., 
and of the Yale University with the degree of 
LI. B. 

He is a member of the Masonic order. Knights 
of Pythias and an Odd Fellow. 



174 History of the 160ih I. Y. I. 

Captain Lee's military service began in 1885, 
as First Sergeant of a company of Infantry in 
the W. ]Sr. G., at Seattle, and served in the 
notable Chinese riots. He resigned from this 
company May 18, 1886, to become a member of 
Co. B, W. K. G., serving eighteen months. On 
December 9, 1887, he was commissioned Captain 
in the Mississippi Is^ational Gnard, and after 
serving seventeen months as Captain, was pro- 
moted to Major and Aid-de-Camp on the Staff 
of Governor Robert Lowry. On July 7, 1889, 
he was promoted to Inspector General of Miss- 
issippi, with the rank of Major on the Staff of 
General J. S. Billups, serving foiirty-four 
months. In 1889, he served as Captain of the 
Edgefield Riiles, Xational Guard of South Caro- 
lina, for the purpose of preparing this company 
for a competitive drill at Jacksonville. His fur- 
lough expired and he returned to Mississippi. 

On March 23, 1893, he resigned his commis- 
sion as Colonel and Inspector General of Indi- 
ana, on the Staff" of Governor Claude Matthews, 
serving four years as inspector of State troops, 
and during the strikes at Hammond, Chicago 
and Pullman, as Acting Assistant Adjutant 
General on the Staff' of General Robbins. His 
commission expired in January, 1897. For this 
excellent military record. Governor Mount com- 
missioned him Captain of Co. K, Fourth In- 
fantry, Indiana National Guard, and on May 12, 
1898, Captain in the Volunteer Army. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 175 

George M. Mills, Second Lieutenant of Co. F. 

Lieutenant Mills was born in Well county, 
Indiana, March 25, 1876. lie was reared on the 




GEORGE M. MILLS, Second Lieutenant. 

farm and began his education in the public 
schools, attending the Ossian high school. In 
September of 1897, he enlisted in Co. F, Fourth 
Intantr}', Indiana National Guard as private, but 
in three week's time was appointed tirst ser- 
geant, serving as such until May 7, 1898, when 
he was elected and commissioned second lieuten- 
ant, and on the twelfth, within the same week, 
in the volunteer army. Lieutenant Mills' father 
was a member of the 75th Indiana Vokinteer 
Infantry"for four years during the Civil war. 



176 HigTORY OF THE 160th I. V. I. 

Lloyd D. Clapham, Second Lieutenant of Co. G. 

Lieutenant Lloyd D. Clapham is one of three 
brothers, all members of Co. G, the other two 
holding the rank of sergeant. He assisted in 
organizing Co. G, Fourth Infantry, Indiana Na- 
tional Guard, received the commission of second 




LLOYD D. CLAPHAM, Second Lieutenant. 

lieutenant, and xvas mustered into the Federal 
service. May 12, 1898. Lieutenant Clapham was 
born in Ontaris, LaGrange county, Indiana, May 
2, 1875, and was educated in the Columbia City 
high school. He is a watchmaker and jeweler, 
and was engaged in that occupation at the be- 
ginning of the Spanish-American war. 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 177 

H. B. Spencer, Second Lieutenant of Co. K. 

H. B, Spencer, the youngest commissioned 
officer in the regiment, and probably one of the 
youngest in the entire vohmteer army, was born 
in Huntington, Indiana, February 18, 1879. He 
began his education in the schools of Hunting- 
ton where he graduated in the class of '96. Im- 



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II. B. SPENCER, Second Lieutenant. 

mediately after graduation he entered the Uni- 
versity of Indiana, pursuing the classic studies. 
During his second year at the university Presi- 
dent Mclvinley issued a call for volunteers. 
Lieutenant Spencer temporarily laid aside his 
books to accept a Lieutenancy in Co. K, Fourth 
Infantry, Indiana National Guard, and was mus- 
tered into the Federal service as Second Lieuten- 



178 



History of the KIOtii I. V. I. 



ant of Co. Iv. Althougli having no previous 
military experience lie has proven an efficient 
office''. 



Jessie H. Barlow, Second Lieutenant of Co. I. 

Lieutenant Barlow was born at Tipton, Indi- 
ana, on April 10, 1874. He began his education 
in the city schools, graduating from the high 




.Jf:sSE H BARLOW, Second Lieutenant. 

school in 1892. He took a course in law but 
afterward engaged in the machine business with 
his father, continuing in the business until the 
outbreak of the late war. Lieutenant Barlow 
assisted in organizing Co. I, and was appointed 
first sergeant. On December 16, 1898, he was 
elected second lieutenant of Co. I. 



IX THE Spanish- A.MERicAX War. 179 

James L. Glascock, First Lieutenant of Co. C. 

James Logan Glascock was born near Green- 
ville, Indiana, December 30, 1866, in direct line 
of descent from the General Glascock who was 
the first military governor of Georgia, alter hav- 
ing served as Captain and first aide to Brigadier- 
General Connt Pulaski. 




JAMES L. GLASCOCK, First Lieutenant 

He received a common school education at 
his home and took a finishing course at the Dan- 
ville I^ormal College of Indiana. At the age of 
nineteen years he began teaching school, contin- 
uing at his profession until the calling out of the 
Xational Guard for the Spanish-American war, 
at which time he w^as principal of the Jenks 
school in Lafayette, Ind., where his services were 



180 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

valued so highly that his salary was continued to 
retain him after the war. 

His first connection with the military service 
was in 1889, when he enlisted as a private in 
Co. F, Second Regiment, Indiana Legion, serving 
three years. He next enlisted June 25, 1895, 
in Co. C, Fourth Infantry, Indiana National 
Guard as a private, was made first sergeant, and 
on May 12, 1896, was commissioned first lieu- 
tenant, and on A}tril 25, 1898, he, in command 
of the company, received a telegraphic order to 
report the company for service at Indianapolis. 
On May 6, 1898, he was detailed as regimental 
ordnance olficer, and on June 29, was ordered 
to report as Brigade-Commissary oflicer on the 
stafit" of Brigadier-General Roe commanding the 
first brigade, second division, first army corps. 
At Camp Conrad the Lieutenant was appointed 
first Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General Wiley, 
where he had the honor, during the illness of 
Brigadier-General Wiley, of escorting Major- 
General Wilson on his tour of inspection, it be- 
ing the first entrance of the Major-General into 
the city of Columbus since the Civil war, when 
he had besieged and taken this city. 

During the last two months of Lieutenant 
Glascock's service under General Wiley, he was 
acting Assistant-Adjutant- General for the bri- 
gade. On the 9th of February he was trans- 
ferred to the Second Army Corps, where he re- 
mained until ordered to rejoin his regiment, 
posted at Matanzas, Cuba, for mustering out. 



Enlisted Men. 



Don C. R. Kocher, Quartermaster-Sergfeant. 
Don. C. R. Kocher was born in Fayette coun- 
ty, Ohio, October 22, 1872, and Avhen he was but 
a child his parents removed to Blnftton, Ind., 




DON C. R. KOCHER, Quartermaster-Sergeant. 

where he received his education, graduating from 
the high school in 1891. He was a student of 
the State Xormal two terms, and for two years 
taught in the schools of Wells county. After a 
course of study of two years under the direction 



182 



History of the KIOth I. V. I. 



of Wilson & Todd, lie entered the Michiffan 
Universit}', g-raduating- from the department of 
law in 1895, and from that time until the late 
war practiced in Blutfton. 

Sergeant Ivocher served live years in the Na- 
tional Guard, and, incidentally during the 
strikes of 1894. 



Will H. Bloss, First Ser§:eant of Co. K. 

Will II. Bloss was born in Orleans, Orange 
county, Indiana, April 4, 1869. He graduated 
from the Muiieie high school in 188(3, in the fall 




WILL H BLOSS, First Serueant. 

of the same year, he entered the Indiana Uni- 
versity and studied until March, 1890, when he 
accepted a position with the engineering depart- 



IN THE Spanish-American War, 183 

ment of the Atkinson, Topeka and Santa Fe ' 
Railroad Company. In 1891-92 he was empk)y- 
ed as topographer in ^N^ew Mexico, and incident- 
ally assisted in surveying its coal fields and the 
Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railroad, and in 
1893 was in charge of the Oregon educational 
exhibit at the world's fair. 

In August of 1891, he enlisted in the 14th 
U. S. Infantry, and was discharged as Corporal 
in 1897. His excellent qualities were recognized 
by being detailed as instructor ot recruits for 
eighteen months, and six months as topograph- 
er. In May of 1889, he was elected First Lieu- 
tenant of a company of volunteers at Muncie, 
Indiana, but the company was not accepted. 

In August of 1898, Sergeant Bloss was ordered 
before a board of officers to determine his litness 
for promotion to the grade of Second Lieuten- 
ant, but was not commissioned by the governor 
although he passed the highest grade, because 
he did not belong to the company in which the 
vacancy occurred. 



Emesh E. Pollock, Principal Musician. 
Emesh E. Pollock was born at Woster, Ind., 
October 9, 1879, and suspended his studies to 
become a volunteer soldier. He was a private 
of Co. H, 4th Infantry, Indiana National Guard, 
and enlisted in the Federal service as Musician. 
On December 1, 1898, he was promoted to Princi- 
pal Musician. 



184 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

John C. Ault, Ser§:eant Co. B. 

John C. Ault was born in Adams county? 
Indiana, January 17, 1875, a year later his 
parents removed with him to Auburn, Indiana, 
where they lived several years, afterward mov- 




JOIIN C. AULT, Sergeant. 

ing to Danville, Illinois. Here he was a black- 
smith in a carriage and wagon works for seven 
years, then he went to Decatur, Ind. He was 
educated in the public schools of Indiana and 
Illinois. 

Sergeant Ault enlisted in the Indiana Il^'a- 
tional Guard on June 12, 1895, serving until the 
late war when he enlisted in Co. B. 



IX THE Spanish-American War. 185 

Chas. W. Brothers, Corporal Co. B. 

Corporal Charles AV. Brothers joined the In- 
diana irrational Guard, on May 12, 1895, enlisted 
ill the A^olunteer army, May 12, 1898, and pro- 
moted to Corporal July 12 of the same year. 




chas. W. brothers, Corporal. 

He was born near Decatur, Indiana, May 22, 
1877, educated in the common school, and his 
occupation is that of a carpenter. 



Horace S. Matthews, First Sergeant of Co. I. 

Horace S. Alatthews was born at Baltimore, 
Maryland, November 18, 1873, six months later 
his parents moved to Indiannpolis, Indiana, 
where he lived until 1893. Much of this time 



186 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

was spent on the farm near the city. In 1895 he 
went to Chicago, remaining there until 1897 
when he moved to Ti[)ton, Indiana where he 
Hved at the time of his enlistment, and where at 
present he is engaged in the retail grocery trade. 



Herbert C. Brunt, First Ser§:eant of Co. L. 

Herbert C. Brunt was born in Nosho County 
Kansas January 8, 1874, where he received his 
school education. Moved to Anderson, Madison 
County, Indiana in 1890, where he accepted a 
position of compositor with the Anderson Demo- 
crat. In the spring of 1892 he went to Denver, 
Colorado, and accepted a similar position with 
the Rocky Mountain News but in the fall he re- 
turned and attended the Bryant & Stratton 
Business College at Louisville, Kentucky, finish- 
ing the course in January 1893. Returning to 
Anderson Indiana, he accepted a position with 
the Anderson Iron and Bolt Co. as accountant 
and traveling salesman and was still with the 
iirm at his enlistment in the 160th Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, April 26, 1898. Was a 
member of the Indiana Xational Guard from 
1893 to 1897 and participated in the coal riots in 
that state in 1894. He was mustered in the 
United States Volunteer service May 12, 1898 as 
First Sergeant and retained his position until 
the muster-out of"the regiment April 25, 1899. 



i\ THE Sfaxish-Amekicax War. 



187 



FAgjiT E. Kelsey, Sergeant-Major. 

Edgar E. Kelsey is a native of Wells County, 
Indiana, was born on May 29. 1861, and gradu- 
ated from the University of Michigan in 18!l0 
with the Dcfi^ree of Bachelor of Laws. He was 




EDGAR E. KELSEY, Sekgeant-Ma.jok 

admitted to the Huntington County Bar July 7, 
1890, Prosecuting- xlttorney of the 56th Judicial 
Circuit of Indiana from '94 to '96, Captain of M. 
E. Cadets' Company in 1884, and enlisted in the 
Indiana National Guard, April 26, 1898. He 



188 



History of the 160th I. V. I. 



was appointed First Sergeant of Co. K, 4th In- 
fantry, and on may 12, 1898, mustered into the 
Vohinteer army as Sergeant-Major of the Third 
Battalion. 



Arthur R. Miller, Battalion Sergfeant-Major. 

Artluir R. Miller was born near Linn Grove, 
Indiana, May 21, 1879, and at the time of his en- 
listment was a student in the Decatur High 




ARTHUR R. MILLER, Sergeant-Ma.ior. 

school. At the age of fifteen he became a mem- 
ber of the Indiana National Guard ; after one 
year of service was promoted to Corporal, after 
two years to sergeant, and before enlisting in the 
volunteer army was made Sei'geant-Major of the 
Second battalion. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 
Johh 0. Fryer, First Ser§:eaiit Co. A. 



189 



John Otto Fryer was born at Eldorado, Ohio, 
January 23, 1876, and has lived in Marion, Ind. 
since 1882. He enlisted in the Indiana Xational 
Guard in June of 1893, was on duty at Ham- 
mond in 1894, and was a member at tlie time of 
the breaking out of the late war. 




JOHN O. FliYER, First Sergeant. 



Sergeant Fryer is a graduate of the Marion 
High School and was, for two years, a student 
in the Dental College of the University of India- 
napolis, and would have graduated with the 
class of '99. 



190 History of the IHOtii 1. V. I. 

J. D. Andrews, Commissary-Sergfeant of Co. B. 

John D. Andrews, the oldest enlisted man in 
the regiment, and perhaps the most generally- 
known, has been a most loyal member of mili- 
tary organizations. In 1889 he enlisted in the 
Fonrth Reu'iment, Indiana Legion, Co. B of this 




J. D. ANDREWS, Commissvky Sergeant. 

regiment being the first military organization in 
the city of Decatur, and with that company 
transferred to the Indiana National Gnard. 

His service has been continuous from his first 
enlistment and he is the only member of Co. B 
wdio is a charter member of the Indiana Legion. 
He has seen service in two riots, the principal 
being that of Roby, and is entitled to three ser- 
vice and two riot stripes. He enlisted in the 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 191 

Federal service as Commissary Sergeant of Co. 
B, and on June 24, 1898, was detailed to recruit 
the company. 

Sergeant Andrews was born in Adams 
county, Indiana, December 8, 1850, his l)oyhood 
was spent on the farm where he acquired a com- 
mon school education. He is now a resident of 
Decatur. Politically he is a republican; relig- 
iously, a Methodist. 



S. E. Hitchcock, Regfimental Commissary Sergfeant. 

Samuel Elsworth Hitchcock was born at 
Hamilton, Ohio, Xovember 19, 1862. His parents 
are of Scotch-Irish and English extraction, his 
grandparents were from Vermont, but removed 
to Ohio, where his grandfather Dr. Samuel 
Hitchcock became prominent in the practice ot 
his profession. 

In 1873, Sergeant Hitchcock removed with his 
parents to Indiana, where he began his education 
in the public school, later attending the America 
JSTormal at Logansport, and the State Normal at 
Terre Haute. He spent five 3'ears teaching iu 
the public schools of Carrol County, three years 
as principal of the Bringhurst Schools, and four 
years as teacher of sciences in the Bhiffton High 
School. 

At the declaration of tlie late war Serg-eant 
Hitchcock enlisted as Regimental Commissary 
Sergeant and served with the regiment in Cuba. 



192 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

Harry T. Mote, Re§:imental Barber. 

Harry T. Mote, enlisted in Co. F on July 1, 
1898. Entering as a recruit lie attended all the 
drills at Camp Thomas and practiced harhering 
between times, his merit as a barber was recog- 
nized by relieving him from the routine of drills 
and guard duty and appointing him regimental 
barber. Prior to enlistment he practiced profes- 
sion eighteen years and was proprietor of the 
celebrated shop "Out-of-Sight" at Muucie, Ind. 

Private Mote is a devotee to sports. He w^as 
manager of the Muncie Ball Team in 1893, in 
1895 president of the Kansas League and manager 
of the Topeka team, and in 1896 manager of the 
Colorado Springs team. 

He was born on March 10, 1868, and is a native 
of Kokomo, Indiana. 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 195 

The Regiment Band. 

The 160th Indiana Band was considered the 
finest in the Vohinteer army. Xearly all of its 
members were professionals whose patriotism 
cansed them to give up lucrative positions to 
cheer the "boys" on march or in camp. 

This Band was a favorite wherever it went 
and received many invitations to give concerts 
in the cities near which the regiment camped. 
From the concerts given, resulted the highest 
praise from press and public, incidently by the 
correspondent of Harper's Weekly and Leslies.' 

That due credit may be given each member a 
roster is given with instrument designated: 

Chief Musician, James L. Swihart, Solo Cornet. 
Principal Musician, Fred R. Cramer, Solo Clarinet. 
Drum Major, Corporal Frank Kramer. 
Civilian, Chas. I. Thompson, 1st Cornet. 

Privates: — 

Jacob Piercy, 2nd Cornet. 

Earle Coyner, 3rd Cornet. 

J. C. Whitney. Piccolo and Flute. 

Carl T. Hathaway, Eb Clarinet. 

Frank Hobbs, 2nd Bb Clarinet. 

Maurice Wilcox, 3rd Bb Clarinet. 

O. V. Shaffer, Baritone. 

E. L. Brooke, Baritone. 

Philip Farren, 1st Slide Trombone 

Rome Cai'ey, 2nd Slide Trombone. 

Roscoe Cook, Solo Alto. 



196 History of the 160th I. V, I. 

Percy Mumaw, 2nd. Alto. 

Clyde Wagner, 3rd Alto. 

William Stewart, Eb Tuba. 

Edward F. Hessel, Eb Tuba. 

Sherman Greider, Snare Drum. 

Frank Wallace, Cymbals. 

Frank White, Bass Drum. 
Discharged:— 

Drum Major, R. B. Moon. 

Private, Ed. V. Jackson. 
" Chas. Kronk. 
" M. P. Allen. 
" Chris. D. Myers. 
Transferred to Signal Corps:— 

F. C. Kearns. 
Deserted: — 

George F. Yeager. 



Chronological History 

- — OF THE 

War Between the United States and Spain, 

Febraarj 15— Battleship Maine, U. S. Navy, 
destroyed in the harbor of Havana, with 248 of 
her otficers and crew. 

February 21 — Kaval court of inquiry opened 
in liarbor of Havana. 

March 5 — Both branches of the military being 
prepared for service. 

March 7 — The Montgomery ordered to Ha- 
vana. 

March 27 — Board of Inquiry declares that the 
Maine was destroyed by external agencies. 

April 11 — President McKinley sends his mes- 
sage to Congress advising armed intervention in 
Cuba. 

April 13 — House adopts Cuban resolution 
directing the President to intervene. 

Api'il 14 — Troops ordered to Southern ports. 

April 20 — President's ultimatum sent to Spain- 
Spain expected to refuse. Spanish minister 
given his passports. 

April 21 — Minister Woodford given his pass- 
ports by Spain. 

April 22 — North American squadron begins 
the blockade of Cuba. United States gunboat 



198 History of the 160th I. Y. I. 

Nashville captures freighter Bueiia Ventura the 
tirst prize of the war. 

April 23 — Blockade of Havana begun. Pres- 
ident makes first call for 125,000 troops. 

April 25 — War formerl}^ declared by Con- 
gress. Asiatic squadron leaves Hong Kong to 
attack Manila. 

April 27 — First fight of the war. Bombard- 
ment of the Matanzas forts. 

May 1 — Dewey's victory. Destroys Admiral 
Montijo's fleet at Manila. Sinks eleven Spanish 
ships. 

May 5 — Sampson leaves for Porto Rico. 

May 11 — Cruiser Wilmington and torpedo- 
boat Winslow in an attempt to silence the bat- 
teries at Cardenas are repulsed. Ensign Worth 
Bagley, of North Carolina, and four seamen at- 
tached to the Winslow were, killed by the 
bursting of a shell. Senate confirms nomina- 
tion of Dewey to be a Rear-Admiral. 

May 12 — Americans fail to land troops at 
Cienfueg.yS. 

May 13 — North Atlantic Squadron bombards 
San Juan. American troops land near Cabanas, 
Cuba. Commodore Schley, with Flying Squad- 
ron, sails from Old Point. 

May 14 — Steamer Gussie fails in an attempt to 
land troops and supplies in Cuba. First land fight. 

May 17 — Cervera's fieet reported off' Vene- 
zuela. 

May 19 — Cervera's fleet enters harbor of 
Santiago. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 199 

May 25— The President calls for 75,000 addi- 
tional volunteers. 

May 31 — Commodore Scliley bomba:ds the 
forts at the entrance of Santiago harbor. 

June 3 — Lieut. Hobson and crew of seven 
heroes sink Collier Merrimac in channel of San- 
tiago harbor to prevent possible escape of Cer- 
vera's fleet. 

June 4 — Cervera send flag of truce to Ad- 
miral Sampson, announcing the safety of Lieut. 
Hobson and crew and complimenting them on 
their heroism. 

June 5 — Americans land near Santiago. 

June 6 — Santiago forts bombarded and Reina 
Mercedes sunk. 

June 7 — Haitian cable cut by expedition from 
Marblehead, Yankee and St. Louis. Cuba now 
completely isolatecl. 

June 10 — Sampson's squadron bombards Bai- 
quiri, near Santiago. 

June 12 — Spanish assaualt American marines 
encamped at (iuantanamo, but are repulsed. 
Four men killed. Shafter's expedition leaves 
Key West for Santiago. 

June 15 — Fight at Guantanamo Bay. One 
hundred Spaniards killed. 

June 16 — Santiago bombarded. 

June 17 — Second Spanish Squadron sails for 
Cadiz. Supposed destination, the Philippines. 

June 20 — Shafter's army appears before San- 
tiago. Spanish troops forced to retire into forti- 
fied part of Manilla. 



200 History of the 160tii I. V. I. 

June 22 — Shafter's army lands at Baiqniri. 

June 24 — Roosevelt's Rough Riders and First 
and Tenth United States Cavalry (less than 
1,000 all told), after desperate battle with 2,000 
Spanish troops, gained position within live miles 
of Santiago. "LaGuasima." 

June 27 — Orders issued for formation of East- 
ern Squadron under command of Commodore 
Watson to operate against Spanish coast. Ad- 
miral Camara's fleet in Suez Canal. 

July 1 — United States troops, after an all day 
engagement, occupy the outer work at Santiago. 

July 2 — El Caney and San Juan captured, 
and 2,000 Spanish prisoners taken. 

July 3 — Admiral Cervera's fleet destroyed by 
Schley. Spanish loss, about 300 killed, 1,300 
prisoners. 

July 4 — The Ladrone Islands taken. First 
relief expedition reaches Manila. 

July 6 — Hobson and crew exchanged. Ger- 
man interference in the Philippines prevented 
by Admiral Dewey. Resolutions annexing 
Hawaii pass the Senate. 

July 9 — Major-General Miles leaves with re- 
inforcements for Santiago. 

July 10 — "Warships begin the bombardment 
of Santiago. 

July 11 — Armistice agreed for twenty-four 
hours at Santiago. 

July 14 — General Toral formally surrenders 
Santiago. 

July 17 — Santiago occupied by Americans. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 201 

July 21 — Miles sails for Porto Rico. 

July 23 — Porto Rican expedition to reinforce 
General Miles leaves Tampa, Florida. 

July 25 — General Merritt arrives at Manila. 
General Miles' expedition lands on the southern 
coast of Porto Rico. Guantanamo surrenders to 
Shafter. 

July 26 — French Ambassador, on behalf of 
Spain, asks the United States to name terms of 
peace. 

July 30 — United States Government's reply to 
Spanish peace proposals handed to French 
Ambassador. 

August 3 — Spanish troops in Manila attempt 
a sortie, but are driven back with heavy loss. 

August 5 — Secretar}^ Alger orders the im- 
mediate return of General Shafter's army to the 
United States. Troops under General Brooke 
enter Guayamo. General Miles meets with 
little or no resistance in Porto Rico. 

August 7 — Spanish Cabinet accepts American 
peace proposals. 

August 8 — Spanish prisoners leave Santiago 
for Spain. 

August 10 — President submits a protocol to 
Spain on which peace can be arranged. 

August 11 — Spanish Cabinet accepts the pro- 
tocal, practically ending the war. 

August 12 — The peace protocol signed, and 
President orders a cessation of hostilities, which 
had then lasted 110 days. 

August 15 — Manila surrenders uncondition- 
ally to Admiral Dewey, after a bombardment of 



202 History of the 160tii I. Y. I. 

two hours and a gallant assault by the American 
troops. News of the peace protocol had not 
reached Dewey. 

August 17 — The President appoints the Mili- 
tary Commissioners for Cuba and Porto Rico, 
as follows: For Cuba— Major-General James 
F. Wade, Rear-Admiral William T. Sampson, 
and Major-General Matthew C. Butler, U. S. 
Volunteers. For Porto Rico— Major-General 
John R Brooke, Rear-Admiral Winlield S. 
Schley, and Brigadier-General William W. 
Gordon, V. S. Volunteers. 

August 30 — United States representatives on 
Peace" Commission appointed by the President, 
as follows: Wm. R. Day, of Ohio, lately Secre- 
tary of State, Senator C. K. Davis, (Rep.) of 
Minn., Senator Wm. P. Frye, (Rep.) of Maine, 
Senator George Gray, (Dem.) of Delaware, Hon. 
Whitelaw Reid, of New York. 

October 1 — Peace Commissioners meet with 
five commissioners on behalf of Spain, at Paris. 

October 18 — American flag raised permanent- 
ly over Porto Rico. 

December 10— Treaty of peace signed by 
Peace Commissioners of United States and 
Spain, at Paris. 

Casualties in killed and wounded during the 
war: Army officers killed, 23; enlisted men 
killed, 257; total 280; officers wounded, 113; en- 
listed men wounded, 1464; total, 1577. 

Navy, one officer and eighteen enlisted men 
killed; 67 enlisted men wounded. 

No officers or men of the Army or Navy cap- 
tured, except crew of the "Merrimac," one 
officer and seven enlisted men. 

The cost of the war to the United States up to 
the signing of the Peace protocol was 
$150,000,000. 



APPENDIX. 



Our Nation's Army at the Outbreak of the Spanish- 
American War. 

OUR LITTLE REGULAR ARMY. 

Officers Men. 

Infantry, 25 regiments 811 13,125 

Cavalry, 10 " 432 6,170 

Artillery, 5 " 280 4,025 

General and staff officers 362 

Ordnance departmeni 56 605 

Engineer " 109 500 

Hospital corps '^^^ 

Miscellaneous ^^^ 

Total 2,116 25,706 

To this force the Hawley bill had added two 
regiments of artillery. The adjutant general's 
returns (February, 1898) showed 114,632 men 
enrolled in the militia of the States, and esti- 
mated the total number of men available for ser- 
vice in case of necessity at 10,301,339. 

The meaning of this brief array of figures was 
that the United States had gone to war, practic- 
ally speaking, without an army. To create one, 
the first step must be a call for volunteers, and 
to provide for this Congressman Hull, chairman 
of the House military affairs committee, intro- 
duced a t)ill (April 20) framed by the War De- 
partment. It declared that all able bodied male 



206 History of the 160th I. Y. I, 

citizens from eigliteen to forty-tive years old con- 
stituted the national forces, and were liable to 
military duty ; that troops might be called out 
by the President, to be supplied by each State 
and Territory in proportion to its population; 
that the regimental and company officers should 
be named by the Governors of the States, the 
general and staff officers by the President. The 
bill was hurried through House and Senate, and 
received the executive approval April 22; and 
on the following day a call lor 125,000 men was 
issued. 

By an act that became law four days later 
Congress partially retrieved its failure to pass 
the original Hull bill for the reorganization of 
the army. This later measure, also named after 
Mr. Hull, who fathered it in the House, author- 
ized additional enlistments up to a total of 62,- 
579 men, doubling the rank and file of each of 
the existing regiments. It was carefully pro- 
vided that the increase should be only temporary, 
and that the army should be reduced to its 
former strength — or rather weakness — at the 
end of the war. 

MOBILIZING THE ARMY. 

The first plans of the War Department were 
to concentrate the regular troops, scattered in 
small detachments at the army posts, at three 
Southern poi-ts — New Orleans, Mobile, and 
Tampa — in readiness for an immediate move 
upon the Spanish West Indies. Like a great 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 207 

many other plans made during the war, this 
was changed before it had been carried ont. It 
was decided to form a great central camp in the 
national park on the battlefield of Chickamaiiga, 
to whose poignant memories of warfare a new 
chapter was to be added by the great host that 
gathered there — the North and the South in 
arms together. 

The first regiment to move southward was the 
Seventeenth Infantry, which left its post at Co- 
lumbus Barracks, Ohio, on the 18th of April, 
bound for Camp Thomas, as the point of con- 
centration at Chickamauga had been named, in 
honor of the general whose valor stemmed the 
tide of Federal defeat there in 1863. Later, 
another great instruction camp— Camp Alger— 
was formed at Falls Church, Virginia; and 
troops were sent to three points in Florida — 
Tampa, Jacksonville, and Fernandina — selected 
for their healthfuluess, real or supposed, and for 
their convenience as ports of embarkation. At 
Tampa a powerful train of siege artillery was 
organized as rapidly as possible, under General 
John I. Rodgers— only one battery of it being 
destined to see active service. 

Such were the army's chief offensive prepara- 
tions. It had also to care for the defense of our 
coasts, which, except at a few points, were very 
inadequately protected. After years of per- 
sistent refusal to vote the necessary appropria- 
tions. Congress had consented to a compre- 
hensive scheme of fortification, but of the twelve 



208 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

hundred guns required for its completion only a 
small percentage were actually in place. Many 
important points were in a condition of defeuse- 
lessuess which, in the face of a more powerful 
and active enemy, might have proved disastrous. 
To remedy this the ordnance bureau, as far 
back as the preceding February, had been mak- 
ing special efforts, and though the work is ot 
the sort that moves slowly, much had been ac- 
complished. Early in April a number of large 
rifled guns and howitzers were distributed to 
Southern ports, where they were most needed. 
Later, when the fear of attack had passed, most 
of them were sent to the siege train at Tampa. 



In the Philippines. 

FROM harper's weekly. 

A week has passed — a week of fighting and 
marching, of jungles and rivers, of incident and 
adventure so varied and of so rapid transition 
that to sit down to write about it makes one 
feel as if he were trying to describe a dream 
where time, space, and all the logical sequences 
of ordinary life are upset in the unrelenting 
brutality of war. The niilitary part of the 
campaign was simple enough to understand. 
It consisted practically of a straight move for- 
ward along the railroad track to Malolos. The 
real interest does not lie in this direction, for 
there is little to record of strategy in the past 
week's movements, unless it be our failure to 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 209 

catch aii}^ considerable body of insurgents, and 
our rather cumbersome way of brushing the 
enemy aside, instead of cornering them in any 
one place, there to force an issue. The fighting 
was, barring a few well-defined exceptions, a 
long-range conflict with the rear-guard of the 
eneni}^, in which Mausers showed their superior- 
ity over Springfields. General McArthur him- 
self acknowledged that the battle of February 5 
was a regimental commander's fight. The 
campaign to Mololos was not a regimental com- 
mander's fight, and the result has been disap- 
pointing, probably because a well-planned, slow- 
ly moving battle-line directed as if to meet a 
well-trained enemy is not successful against a 
guerilla enemy who simply moves out of the 
way. In order to make such a campaign success- 
ful it would be necessary to have enough troops 
to occupy every town of importance in the 
islands — say, 100,000 men. 

At the beginning of each day's advance the 
battle formation was perfect. Our long line, 
connected throughout, advanced with the pre- 
cision of clock-work, but it never got a fair 
knock-down fight out of the enemy. Of course 
it is a question whether it is possible to corner a 
Filipino force in such a rough country, with our 
men heavily loaded down; while the barefooted 
enemy, knowing every bypath, can slip through 
the jungle as noiselessly and rapidly as wild 
animals. At any rate, every one acknowledges 



210 History of the 160th I. V. I, 

to a certain disappointment as to the strategical 
advantages gained. 

As to the moral efiect, due to the splendid 
courage of our men charging day after day 
against seemingly impregnable trenches and 
bomb-proofs, and, most of all, to the ease with 
which we took the capital of the insurgent gov- 
ernment, it has been great. How great this 
moral effect has been on the enemy it is at 
present impossible to tell, but I do not believe it 
to be as overwhelming as is believed at head- 
C|uarters. 

It is on the heroism of Jimmy Green, the en- 
listed man, whether he be volunteer or regular, 
that the interest of the campaign centres. It is 
from the individual point of view that the past 
weeks have been like a dream. In the midst of 
the carnage of war, tragedies of life have been 
mixed with the most ghastly pictures of physical 
mutilation and suliering, until the very rapidity 
of the transitions dazed one and blunted the 
sensibilities. Heroism became a matter of course, 
and death an incident. Imagine as a back- 
ground to this changing scene, burning villages, 
smoke, fire, shot, and shell ; the ceaseless tramp 
of tired and often bleeding feet; swamps and 
jungles to be crossed and rivers to be swum ; 
men weighted down with ammunition and ra- 
tions, uncomplaining and cheerful under the 
heat of a tropical sun ; at the end of each long 
day a sharp skirmish, and perhaps death or life- 
long mutilation ! The natural comment is that 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 211 

all this is merely war — the business of the soldier- 
True ; nor do I think that Jimmy Green is 
troubled with heroics. He accepts the situation 
as a matter of course, without excitement or 
hysterics. He has little feeling in the matter, 
for his heart is not in this fight. He does not 
like his job particularly well, but these very 
facts go to show what splendid soldiers Amer- 
ican citizens make in the field. 

A REGIMENT IN ACTION. 

From La Lorn a church you may get the full 
view of our long line crossing the open field — 
evenly, steadily, irresistibly, like an inrolling 
wave on the beach. Here you may learn your 
first lesson about the United States army. 
Watch the regiments go forward and form under 
fire and move on and on, and you will exclaim, 
"Magnificent!" and you will gulp a little and 
feel proud, without exactly knowing why. Then 
gradually the power in that line of Americans 
will force itself upon you, and you will feel that 
you must follow, that wherever that line goes 
you must go also. By-and-by you will be sorry, 
but for the present the great might of an Amer- 
ican regiment has got possession of you. Before, 
however, you move forward look closely at the 
line. On the right our men are firing heavily, 
but on our left you will notice that the Third 
Artillery are moving forward without firing a 
shot. It is not because the enemy are not firing 
at them, for here and there in the line a figure 
falls. 



212 History OF THE ] 60th I. A^. I. 

They will have advanced 1,000 yards, under 
very heavy lire, before, they fire their first shot. 
Look well, for the chances are yon will never see 
such a sight again. They move slowly, steadily ; 
it almost seems to you as if they moved slowly 
on purpose, just to show how long they can 
stand it. This is not a dashing charge, where 
the excitement gives temporar}^ and unusual 
courage. It is an unwavering advance made 
possible by the cold determination of every man 
in the command, backed up by the training of 
good officers. 

You have now learned what sort of a machine 
the American regiments are when they cross an 
open field two miles and three-quarters wide, 
without shelter, and with the enemy firing at 
them from behind strong entrenchments. Now 
get in back of the Third Artillery and find out 
what sort of men these regiments are composed 
of. You had better run for it and catch up with 
them before they have gone very far, or you will 
get all the spent bullets. Just back of the line 
are the Chinese litter-bearers. They crouch be- 
hind some rice mounds and chatter incoherently. 
A guard stands over them, and when a soldier 
drops in the firing-line this guard shouts : 

" JSTow, ' Chinos,' get along with you." 

They do not like it, but if they are watched 
and driven they will do anything for money. 

Doctor Matthews, attached to the Third Artil- 
lery, gallops over the field, looking after the 
wounded. Although he makes a target of him- 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 213 

self in so doing, he insists on riding bis horse, 
because otherwise be conld not get around 
rapidly enough to attend to all the wounded. 

In the firing-line Jimmy Green, the enlisted 
man, stands to bis work. He does not look 
particularly smart. His clothes do not tit him, 
but be has a rugged homespun face and a clear 
intelligent eye. He is not a bit excited. He 
does not like these whistling bullet^ any more 
than you do, because be kuow^s what they mean. 
He is going ahead, however. "When bis chum 
is shot by his side be stoops a second over him 
to say a gruft' word or two and moves on. It is 
against regulations for a man to drop out of the 
tiring-line, even to help a wounded comrade. 
"You must like to get shot at?" you say. 
He remarks, "I'm paid for it." 
He would not work at home for the S15 a 
month be is receiving, but at that critical mom- 
ent the self-depreciation of bis own motives 
pleases bim enormously, and he will harp on it, 
although once back in America be will brag and 
tell the most outrageous yarns about this same 
battle. 

As tbe advance continues, the fire gets hotter. 
The line of insurgent trenches follows tbe edge 
of woods, which drops back in the immediate 
front of tbe Third Artillery, forming a sort of 
broad bay of open land. Into this space the line 
moves, onetting a cross-fire from three sides. 
Tbe regiment is now firing by batteries. This 
is the moment when you will be sorry that you 



214 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

came. Every one else has something to do. 
The officers are giving orders in sharp stacatto 
voices. The men load and tire. But you have 
nothing to do but listen to the bullets hum and 
watch the men drop. If you are wise you will 
follow me and get into a hole where a wounded 
man is being looked after. Heretofore the indi- 
vidual whistle of bullets, as the}' came near or 
far from you, has attracted your attention, but 
now there is a continuous singing about your 
ears, like the whistle of a strong wind in the 
cordage of a ship, only shriller. 

The man on the stretcher has a shattered bone, 
from the thigh to the knee. He is quiet and rather 
cheerful. 

'•I didn't think they'd get me," he remarks. 

The fire ceases gradually, and enables you to 
join the line again. By the time you get up to the 
line, which is now three hundred yards from the 
woods, the insurgents have left their position. 
When the wood is reached not a dead Filipino 
is found in the trenches. The Third Artillery 
have lost thirty-five men out of a total of three 
hundred and ninety in thirty minutes. 

The Tulihan River was half a mile further on 
through dense woods and over uneven ground. 
We caught a glimpse of some of the retreating 
insurgents, and run on to their still smoking 
breakfasts of rice. Under a bush was one 
wounded native. A soldier approached him 
cautiously with fixed bayonet. I do not think 
the man intended to do more than protect him- 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 215 

self against treachery on the })art of the Filipino. 
Major Kobbe's indignation, however, was arons- 
ed. 

"If you touch that man I will shoot you," he 
cried. 

It was the first time I had ever seen the major 
excited. Quiet and somewhat reserved, he re- 
minds one of an old book which centuries of 
good taste have picked out to survive. 

Soon we moved on again — this time through 
brush fences, up and down over knolls. 



Ghastly Reminders. 

FROM INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. 

The quaint old village church, with its stone 
stairs outside leading up to the dilapidated tower 
full of rusty bells, is in a more deplorable state 
than most of its neighbors, having longer stabled 
the Spanish horses. The interior is a total 
wreck, floors entirely gone and altars broken 
into kindling wood. Of all its sacred belong- 
ings but one thing is left — a painting of the 
Virgin and Child, placed too high upon the wall 
to be easily reached, and as we entered the 
dreary ruin a ray of sunlight from the open door 
illumined the infant Christ as with a halo — an 
omen, let us hope, of blessings to come. From 
among the debris of human bones, bits of har- 
ness and broken horseshoes scattered under foot 
I picked up a skull — evidently that of a half- 



216 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

grown youth, one side gone, cut smoothly ofi'by 
a saber or machete stroke. 

Later we walked down the weedy road to 
Campo Santo, at the edge of the village. It is a 
tiny God's acre, with walls of plastered stone 
and a larger and later annex fenced with split 
palm trunks set upright in the red earth. A 
row of black vultures, perched above the arched 
gateway, gazed at us with speculative eyes, but 
did not stir — having probably made too many 
hearty meals on the human species not to regard 
them with favor. The gate to this poor Httle 
"field of saints" was tied with a bit of rope and 
its red soil, without a blade of grass or green 
thing growing, has been rounded up into regular 
mounds. It was swept as clean as all the rest 
of the village — barring an occasional scattered 
rib or marrow bone. There are a tew rather 
pretentious graves, each surmounted by a glass- 
faced box containing the hedious wreaths of 
black and white beads which find such favor in 
the eyes of mourning Spanish-Americans. Other 
graves were marked by black painted wooden 
crosses, but the great majority had only two 
sticks, tied together cruciform fashion, laid on 
top or stuck in the earth at the head. Vagrant 
breezes and passing footsteps soon disarrange 
this symbol of Christian's hope, which some 
stricken heart has placed above its beloved dead, 
and though the emblem means, personally, little 
to me, I have hundreds of times stooped to 
replace it and tie the cross piece more securely. 



IN THE Spanish-American War. 217 

The alcaldi, or village mayor, who accom- 
panied us to the cemetery, pointed out two 
rough boxes, one long, the other shorter — which 
stand on end inside the gateway and remarked 
that in them more than six thousand of his 
friends and neighbors had been brought to their 
eternal rest Avithin three years. Ont among the 
weeds of an unfenced tield, a few rods away, 
stood a heavy, two-wheeled ox cart, huge tongue 
liio;h in the air — the village hearse, in which the 
six thousand had taken their last short journey. 
Across one corner of the cemetery a second wall 
is placed, inclosing a triangnlar space, which is 
filled to the brim with human bones, partially 
burned, but by no means reduced to dust. In 
front of this was the most ghastly sight of all — a 
fresh lot of miscellaneous bones, skulls, coffin 
boards, shrouds, shoes et cetera, lately evicted 
from rented graves and made ready for the semi- 
annual burning. Many of the skulls had hair 
clinging to them. One I noticed was thin and 
gray, as of an old man ; another was of a chest- 
nut brown, and on top of the heap, close by the 
trunk of a body still wrapped in a half-decayed 
blanket, lay a mass of shining jet-black hair, 
loosened from the head to which it had belonged, 
but yet confined in a coil by rusty pins. To us 
it seems strange indeed that our Spanish-Amer- 
ican neighbors attach so little sacredness to the 
" earthly tenement" after the soul has left it. 



218 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

Major-General Nelson A. Miles. 
Xelson Appleton Miles was born in West- 
minster, Mass., August 8, 1839. He received an 
academic education, but had embarked upon a 
mercantile career in Boston when the Civil War 
broke out in April, 1861. In September of that 
year he entered the volunteer service as a lieuten- 
ant in the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry. 
Later he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel ot 
the Sixty-lirst Xew York Volunteers, He was 
engaged in the battles of McCiellan's Peninsular 
campaign, before Riclimond, and at Antietam, 
when he became colonel of his regiment. He 
fought in all the battles of the Army of the Poto- 
mac throughout the war, up to Lee's surrender 
at Appomatox, and was wounded three times. 
For gallantry at the battle of Chancellorsville he 
was brevetted a brigadier general; and in Ma}^ 
1864, he was advanced to the full rank of his 
services at the battle of the Wilderness and 
Spottsylvannia. In August of the same year he 
■was brevetted major-general of volunteers, for 
his bravery throughout the Richmond campaign 
and valuable service at Ream's Station. He was 
commissioned major-general in Octobej-, 1865, 
and mustered out of the volunteer service Sep- 
tember 1, 1866, after having received, in July of 
that year, an appointment in the regular army 
as colonel of the Fortieth Infantrj-. In March, 
1867, the brevet of brigadier-general and major- 
general in the regular army of the United States 
were conferred upon General Miles, as a reward 



IN THE Spanish-American AVar. 219 

for his record of bravery in the great battles of 
Chancellorville and Spotts^dwinnia. Transferred 
to the frontier, he began his reniarkable career 
as an Indian lighter by defeating the Cheyennes, 
Kiowas and Commanches on the borders of the 
Staked Plains, in 1875; and in 1876 subdued the 
hostile Sioux and other tribes in Montana, driv- 
ing Sitting Bull across the Canada frontier, and 
breaking up the bands led by him and other 
truculent chiefs. He captured Chief Joseph's 
Xez Perces in Northern Montana, and in 1878 
rounded up a band of hostile Bannocks near the 
Yellowstone National Park. Commissioned a 
brigadier-general of the United States Army in 
December, 1880, General Miles commanded for 
tive years the Department of the Columbia, In 
July, 1885, he was assigned to the command ot 
the Department of the Missouri, and in April, 
1886, was transferred to Arizona. After an 
arduous campaign against the Apaches under 
Geronimo and Natches, he compelled those re- 
doubtable chiefs to surrender, September 4, 1886. 
For his services in the Indian wars General 
Miles received the thanks of the legislature of 
several of the Western States, and was presented 
with a sword of honor by the citizens of Arizona, 
at Tucson, November 8th, 1887. Upon the re- 
tirement of Major-General Schoiield, in 1895, 
General Miles was invested with the chief com- 
mand of the Army of the United States. His 
wise and efficient superintendence of our land 
forces in the various operations during the 
Spanish-American War of 1898, and his own 
uiasterly campaign of Puerto Rico, are matters 
of contemporaneous histor}'. 



Spanish-American War Poetry* 

The Chargfe. 

BY WILLIAM HAMILTON HATNE 

With shot and shell, like a loosened hell, 

Smighting them left and right, 
They rise or fall on the slooping wall 

Of beetling bush and height. 
They do not shrink at the awful brink 

Of the rifle's hurtling breath, 
But upward press, as their ranks grow less. 

To the open arms of Death ! 
Through a storm of lead, o'er maimed and dead, 

Onward and upward they go. 
Till hand to hand the unflinching band 

Grapple the stubborn foe ! 

O'er men that real, 'mid the glint of steel, 

Bellow or boom of gun. 
They leap and shout over each redoubt 

Till the final trench is won ! 
Oh, charge sublime ! Over dust and grime 

Each hero hurls him name 
In shot or shell, like a molten hell, 

To the topmost heights of fame. 
And prone or stiff under bush or cliff 

Wounded and dead men lie, 
While the tropic sun on a grand deed done 

Looks with his piercing eye. 



IN THE Spanish- American War. 221 

Memorial Day, 1899. 

Bt Isaac W. F. Eat:n, 
Of Bigelow'8 Light Artillery, Army of the Potomac. 

We gather where our soldiers sleep, 

In spring's departing hours, 
Tlie memory of the brave to keep, 

And strew their graves with flowers. 

One sleeps beneath the Xortherii pine, 
Crowned with the victors wreath ; 

Another where the Southern vine 
Weeps o'er the dust beneath. 

But soft the azure skies surround, 

And white the lillies bloom, 
To deck the lowly Southern mound 

Or wreathe the IS'orthern tomb. 

For he who rests beneath the palm 

Strove in a heroe's part; 
Misguided may have been the arm. 

But valiant was the heart. 

Now, but one foe their sons do brave — 

One cause their bosom thrills. 
Look ! see one flag above them wave 

Upon the Cuban hills. 

O, gray-haired heroes! ye who stand 

Where once did paths divide. 
Place ye the wreath with clasped hands — 

Your dead sleep side by side. 



222 History of the 160th I. V. I. 

A Prelude. 

BY MARTHA Sl'cULLOCH-WILLIAMS. 

Scarlet, scarlet, thready scarlet. 

Leaping, living as a tiarae, 
Hear the trumpets singing, snarling, 

Swelling all in wild acclaim ! 
Strength and conquest, mighty daring — 

Blare they ever, evermore, 
Rising, falling, fainting, dying, 

Red as field with battle o'er. 
Purple, somber, dull and thunderous. 

As the storm clouds leaden lower, 
Hear the mad drums roar and grumble, 

In their beat the heart of power. 
" Rally all !" the snare drum calleth ; 

Growls the booming bass, " Stand fast!" 
Low or loud, they time the world-march, 

Beating first and beating last. 

Thin and yellow, thin and jellow. 

Hear— oh, hear the shrilling fife ! 
Shrilling to the heart of silence. 

Cruel-keen as two-edged knife; 
Undervoiced by lurid jangle — 

Hark ! the cymbals clash and claug ! 
In the dim void days unwritten 

Even so the wild notes rang-. 

Black as life when hope hath perished, 
Bellow bull-mouthed minute guns; 

Fame bewails her to the nations 
For her dead, yet deathless sons ; 



IX THE Spanish-American War. 223 

Thready scarlet, leaden pur}tle, 

Yellow life and bull-mouthed bray — , 

Ye have joined in stormy prelude 
To the peace that shines to-day. 



Be Thou Content 

Br KALI Y HISTED BELL. 

Fair land that rolls from sea to sea — 
Prairies fringed with palm and pine — 

Where mountains mingle mightil}' 
In clasp of ice and kiss of vine ; 

J3road seas of meadow, daisy-starred, 
And winding vales caressed by streams. 

And timid plats of dark green sward 
That yearn for children's ha[t})y dreams 

O, peaceful land from tide to tide — 
O, home for millions yet unborn I 

O, what would you of ocean wide. 
And what would you of bugle-born ? 

United States I war-won, and made 
Of internecine strife and tears 

One blood, one tlag, one damask-blade, 
One comrade-hope to greet the years. 

Keep thou, O land, within thy shores ! 

Put thou the kingly crown aside; 
Bare thou the blade our fathers wore 

To sfuard thine own where thine abide I 



224 History of the 1(30th 1. V. I. 

Thou hast no need for navies strong — 
No need for martial captains bokl ; 

Thy strength resides in plowman's song 
Far more than all thy yellow gold ! 

Smite not the lowly ones that raise. 

Their swarthy hands in Freedom's name! 

Think not that holy ones will praise 

Thy creed of might and shameless shame ! 

The puny glory won of tears 

From gory crimes of war and death, 

Are dead to praise thro' all the years, 
And damned by honor's latest breath. 

Then sheathe thy blade from tropic isles, 
And let the unlearned heroes hold 

Dominion over far-sea smiles. 

In homes of peace bought with thy gold ! 



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